106 REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 



broad. Parletals separated from supraoculars by three 

 shields, not in contact with the frontal. Interparietal 

 twice as large as occipital, the two separating the inner 

 parietals. First labial and internasal between nasal and 

 rostral. Nasal not in contact with the largest loreal. Men- 

 tal narrower than rostral ; a large submental followed by 

 four pairs, larger backward, two anterior in contact on the 

 mesial line. The suture between the sixth and seventh 

 upper labials lies below the centre of the eye. 



Body slightly depressed. Scales with a central keel 

 and fourteen to sixteen striae, in thirty-nine series around 

 the middle of the body. Adpressed the limbs do not meet 

 by the length of the arm and hand. Fingers moderate, 

 second and third very nearly equal in length ; they are 

 longer than in D. cruscidus, on which, also, the middle 

 fingers differ more in length. Tail depressed at base, 

 round posteriorly ; upper series of scales keeled, lower 

 faintly striate, broader. 



Back pale brown with numerous small spots of brown, 

 arranged in longitudinal and transverse series. Flanks, 

 from snout to hips, darker with longitudinal streaks of 

 lighter in the middle and a few small spots of white about 

 the shoulders. Lateral edges of ventrals a little darker. 



Closely allied to D. crusculus and with it to D. occidims 

 from Jamaica. 



"This lizard is taken under the piles of cocoanut husks ; 

 it is called a " wass" (corruption of wasp) and said to be 

 poisonous." 



Alsophis fuscicauda var. n. 



Brown. Upper part of neck dark brown ; behind this 

 for about half of the total length the back is crossed by 

 narrow bands of dark, occupying the length of a scale and 

 separated by spaces of equal width ; posterior half of en- 



