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I. Tetralepis fruhstorferi Bottger. 



Tetralcpis fruhstorferi^ Bottger, Ber. Offenb. Ver. Naturk. 1892, p. 124. 

 Tetralepis fruhstorferi^ Boulenger, Cat. Sn. I 1893, p. 320. 



Rostral just visible from above; nasal large, twice as long 

 as deep; suture between the internasals longer than that between 

 the praefrontals; frontal a little longer than its distance from 

 the tip of the snout, much shorter than the parietals; loreal 

 as long as deep; one prae- and two postoculars; temporals 

 1+2 or I + I + 2, the anterior long; four upper labials, third 

 entering the eye, fourth very long; four lower labials in contact 



Fig. 51. Tetralepis fruhstorferi Bttgr. Nat. size. Side view of head. 



with the anterior chin-shields; latter shorter than the posterior. 

 Scales in 15 rows; ventrals 187 — 20 1; anal divided; sub- 

 caudals 43 — 56. 



Dark reddish-brown above, with a dark vertebral line. Lower 

 surface bluish- or reddish-grey, each ventral with two brownish 

 spots, the spots forming two longitudinal series along the belly. 

 Length of head and body 432 mm.; tail 70 mm. 



Habitat: Java! (Tengger Mts. 1200 M.). 



25. Simotes Dum. & Bibr. 

 (DUMERIL & BiBRON, Mem. Ac. Sc. XXIII p. 472, 1853J. 

 Head short, not distinct from neck; eye small; pupil round. 



