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tral crests except a few ccnic scales above the scapula;. Gular region with 

 a weak crest. 



The occipital elevation is vertical behind, the lateral ribs but little oblique, 

 and joining the superciliary crest at a little more than a right angle. Medirta 

 crest very convex, nearly vertical below. Superciliary crests continuous, not 

 arched, descending straight and obliquely to the muzzle. None of the crests 

 dentellated. Scales everywhere granular, equal. Nine rows of subequal 

 scales between lateral and median occipital crests; six between canthus 

 on the muzzle. Tail little compressed. 



Color gray and leaden, with yellow shades. Three blackish radii back of 

 orbit. A yellow band from chin to vent. 



Total length 12 in. Muzzle to vent 5 in. 45 lines. Muzzle to orbit 6 lin. 

 Length of hind limb 2 in 6 1. 



This species was obtained at Korusko, Nubia, by Prof. H. A. Ward, and 

 placed in the Museum Peabody Acad., Salem, Mass. No. 489. 



This Charaaeleon resembles the C. v u 1 g a r i s, and is intermediate between 

 it and the C verrucosus. 



It may be observed that the Chamseleo b u re h e 1 i i of Hallowell cannot 

 be regarded as more than a variety of C. g r a n u 1 o s u s of the same author, 

 and that C. capeUii Du Bocage appears to be the same so far as the descrip- 

 tion goes. 

 Panaspis a:neos Cope, sp. et gen. nov. Scincidarum. 



Char, generxcus. Allied to Morethia Gray, differing only in the distinctness 

 of the fronto-parietals from each other and from the interparietal, all three 

 being united in the latter genus. No eyelid ; a supranasal ; rostral not 

 prominent. Limbs short, toes weak, 5 — 5. Scales smooth. 



Character specificus. Scales large, in twenty-four longitudinal series. Two 

 loreals, one behind the other ; two preoculars, one above the other. Fronto- 

 nasals broad as long, separated by frontal, which reaches the interuasal. 

 Frontal acute behind, smaller than each frontoparietal, but a little larger 

 than the interparietal. Lateral parietals meeting behind the last named, and 

 followed by two transverse scales each. Superciliaries and suparorbitals four 

 each. Two large marginal anal scales. 



General proportions slender, the head remarkably so, the tail proportion- 

 ately stout. The appressed extremities do not meet by the length of the 

 longest finger. Toes 1 and 5 equal, 3 and 4 nearly so, elongate. Inner finger 

 very small. Superior labials eight, fifth immediately below orbit, last three 

 scale-like, large ; anterior quadrate. Tail with cross scuta beneath. 



Total length 3 in. 5 lin. To vent 15 1.; to axilla 6 lin.; to ear 3 1.; to 

 orbit 1-2 1. Length fore limb 3 lin. ; hind limb 4-5 1 



Color. Golden olive above, darker behind, with a narrow golden line on 

 each side from the temple to the base of the tail. Sides above darker, be- 

 low lighter, pale spotted. A whitish line from below eye to near axilla. 

 Limbs and tail above brown, with small round white spots ; below greenish 

 white ; tail pale brownish beneath. 



Habitat. Probably Swan River, Australia ; possibly from South-Western 

 Africa. 



Name, from its complete cephalic scutellation, all the plates usual amonfr 

 lizards being present. 



EcMECES PERmcicoLOR Cope, sp. nov. 



Twenty-eight series of broad scales on the body, all entirely smooth. Body 

 fusiform, the limbs very short, with short but unequal toes. Tail cylindric. 



Rostral plate low, broad, prominent, but not acute. Infranasals as long 

 as broad, largely in contact. Internasal much broader than long ; fronto- 

 nasals small, widely separated. Frontal long, rounded behind ; fronto-pa- 

 rietals well in contact, large, rounded behind ; inter-parietal smaller than 

 the latter, parietals well in contact behind it. Dorsal scales equal, a little 



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