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smaller than ventrals. Ear large, membrane deeply placed ; no marginal 

 tubercles or scales. Nasals not divided ; preloreal higher than postloreal ; 

 two preoculars. Superior labials seven, fourth long, below orbit, no sub- 

 orbital plate. A transverse symphyseal, and broad transverse mental. In- 

 ferior labials seven. 'Five supraorbital plates. Scales in front of vent 

 equal. 



In. Lin. 



End of muzzle to vent 3 3 



" " to axilla 13 



" " to orbit 2-7 



Length of fore limb 5-9 



" hind " 8-2 



Color above brown, uniform on the back, each scale with a large white 

 spot near the centre, on head, body and tail. Lower labial and gular scales 

 white, with a brown spot, upper labials brown, with a white spot ; white 

 below, all the scales brown edged ; in a younger specimen laterally, only in 

 an older all round. 



This well marked species is a native of Zanzibar. Mus. Academy and 

 Peabody Acad. No. 499. From H. F. Shepard. I have referred this species 

 to the genus nearly as restricted by Dr. Graj', including with it I'listodon and 

 Otosaurus of his catalogue, as forming together a definable genus. 



SEPSINA Bocage. 

 Sepsina grammica Cope. 



Scales in 22 rows. Limbs small, the anterior one-third the length of the 

 posterior ; toes 3 — 3. Nostril between four plates ; frontonasals and inter- 

 nasals united into a shield which is broader than long. Supraorbitals and 

 superciliaries four each on each side. Frontal concave behind, and wide as 

 long; interparietal nearly as wide, large ; two pairs of parietals, the interior 

 meeting behind ; two pairs transverse plates behind them. Nasal, loreal and 

 preorbital present ; rostral flattened, not acute. Eye over fourth labial. 

 Anal and abdominal plates equal. Ear minute. 



Length to ear 8" (French) ; to axilla 15''' 75''''''. Axilla to groin 5'' b'^. 

 Fore limb 2''^, posterior limb 7". Tail elongate, mutilated. 



Below brownish yellow, above fawn brown ; four rows of scales on each 

 side, with a diirk line in the centre, forming interrupted streaks. Hind limb 

 streaked above in the same way. Tail more distinct, spotted, on the under 

 surface faintly ; above dark banded. 



This species differs from the type described by Bocage, (Journal de Scien- 

 cias, Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturse Lisbon, 186(), 26), in its coloration, 

 in having two rows of scales less ; in having fore limbs very much smaller, 

 less than one-third the posterior, (they are more than one-half the same in 

 the S. an g o 1 e n s is Boc). In the latter the internasal and frontal are 

 much more elongate, and the interparietal very much smaller, according to 

 the description and figure of the above author. 



Museum of the Essex Institute. No. 512. Discovered by Edmunds Lovett, 

 on the South-West Coast of Africa. 



Oedura verrillii Cope. 



The femoral pores in a series arched angularly forwards and not extending 

 on the femora. The plates of the under surfaces df the toes are besides the 

 terminal discs, one pair only, as large as the terminal and at the end of the 

 antepenultimate phalange. Labials regular, 8 — 7 to below pupil ; two rows 

 itifralabials across chin. Rostral undivided. Gular scales granular ; thora- 

 cic and ventral flat, larger than the flat dorsals. Muzzle scales tubercular. 

 A tubercle on each side vent. Head as broad as from end of muzzle to half 

 way between orbit and ear. Color very pale above, with six very deep brown 

 cross bands from nape to sacrum, which are more or less connected on the 

 s des. A brown band through orbit, and one behind, crossing the occiput. 



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