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green in colour, when examined with the lens showed that this sage- 

 green effect had been produced only through the visual fusion by the 

 eye of the delicate detail of yellow, white, and black which was then 

 visible. This dorsal colour detail was very striking in character, and 

 distinctly reptilic in colour and design. It instantly reminded one of 

 the skin-markings of some of the snakes. The principal features 

 were two scalloped subdorsal lines, the points resting on the fold at 

 each segment, of a pale yellow-white colour, but very broken and fused 

 in appearance. There was also a distinct suggestion of a mediodorsal 

 line of an umber tint. These lines all ran from the edge of the pro- 

 thoracic segment, by the head, to the anal segment ; but they were 

 lost and broken by the multiplicity of the lozenge-shaped and scale- 

 like markings, which spread in all directions, and which were black in 

 tint, with a yellowish -white ground. The skinfolds between the seg- 

 ments were projecting, and distinctly in evidence, being darker in 

 colour than the ground tint, and possessing, on each side of every seg- 

 mental division, a sharply expressed, upright, yellowish-white spot ; 

 each with a white bristle, and forming the points of the scalloped 

 subdorsal line before referred to. These spots were brilliantly white 

 on the prothoracic segment, immediately behind the head, and 

 between each pair of spots, on the dorsal surface, was a vaguely ex- 

 pressed light V-shaped form, set forwards, with the base interrupted 

 by the dark dorsal line. On the second abdominal segment there was 

 a transverse dorsal ridge, sharply crossing the crown of the segment. 

 This was black, with its sides boldly picked out with white. On the 

 fifth and eighth abdominal segments there were also slightly project- 

 ing transverse dorsal ridges. These ridges were furnished with two 

 additional white spots, one on either side of the mediodorsal line, 

 thus forming a transverse series of four on each ridge. The dorsal 

 •design finished sharply in two deeply incised skinfolds in front of the 

 anal segment, which were heavily sprinkled with dark warts bearing 

 dark bristles. The anal segment was a bold construction of the 

 colour of the head, but without the jaguar-like markings, displaying 

 instead a number of warts bearing dark setn'. The anal claspers were 

 strongly developed, and very spreading in lateral action, and they, 

 with the abdominal claspers, were of the colour of the head, with 

 darker terminations, and dotted with black. The fringe of hooks on 

 the inner side of the pedal rings was important in scale, and chestnut 

 in colour. The legs were dark olive in tint, blotched strongly with 

 black, and bearing light hairs. The spiracular region again bore 

 resemblance strongly to a reptilic type. It was yellowish-grey in 

 colour, heavily corrugated, and scaly in appearance, the divisions and 

 creases between the corrugations being rich and dark in colour. 

 Each spiracle was set on a plate-like division of skin, and was a very 

 beautiful object. Seen under a high power, it had a glistening 

 metallic sheen, and shone like a jewel. The core of the spiracle was 

 golden, and this was surrounded \\ith a sharp white ring, into which 

 the gold colour was suffused. This combination was set in an 

 intensely black ring again, the outer edge of which was softened away 

 into a farther radius of a beautiful lustrous copper colour. The 

 ventral surface was decorated with two irregular blackish lines, 

 running from the legs to the abdominal claspers. This black colour 

 ascended upwards, laterally, on the 8rd abdominal segment, and 



