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Blanford das Frontale »vertical«, die Palpebralscheibe »superciliary disk«, das Interparietale 
»anterior central oceipitale und das Oceipitale »posterier central oceipital«. Endlich bezeichnet 
Blanford die Frontonasalen als »postfrontals«, die Supraorbitalen als »superciliary shields«, 
die Frontoparietalia als »anterior oceipitals«, die Parietalen als »postoceipitals«, das Frenale 
und Freno-oculare zusammen als »loreals«, die Supralabialen einfach als »labials«, die Sublabialen als 
»lower labials« und die Unterkieferschilder (Submaxillaria) als »chin shields«. Wie man sieht, 
ist somit kein Schild übrig geblieben, das als »frontal« bezeichnet werden könnte. 
»Beschreibung‘): Der Gaumen ist bezahnt. Die Nasenlöcher sind am unteren nach 
!) »Description: Palatal teeth present. Nostrils in the lower posterior angle of the nasal shield 
followed by two/postnasals. Lower eyelid opaque, scaly. Temples covered with polygonal shields, large in front, 
small behind. Scales of the neck above and at the sides granular, passing gradually on the shoulders into 
subimbrieate, equal, rhomboidal, diagonally carinate scales of the back. Scales of the sides rather smaller 
than those of the back, and not keeled. Scales of the sides and back in transverse rows of about 34 each 
Scales of the throat imbricate behind, about the same size as those of the back; collar well marked, with 
a dentieulated edge, formed by the projecting points of 7 enlarged imbricate plates. Ventral scales in 31 
transverse, and, in the middle of the belly, 10 longitudinal rows, the outer longitudinal row much smaller 
than the others, and the 2 central rows narrower than the rest. Praeanal plate slightly larger than the 
others; 14 femoral pores on each thigh. Limbs covered with smooth scales; those on the lower portion .of 
the fore-arm and tarsus very little larger than on the humerus and thigh. Scales on the under part of the 
feet smooth, convex; toes with transverse plates below; those beneath the proximal portions of all the toes, 
except the first on the fore-feet and the fifth on the hind-feet, divided in the centre (This may of course be 
an individual peculiarity); plates near the claws undivided. Tail with all the scales keeled and in distinct 
rings. — Habit of the body moderately stout, rather depressed: tail more than twice the length of the 
body; head conical; limbs moderate; when the fore-leg is laid forward the longest toe reaches to the nostril, 
the hind-limb extends about four-fifths of the distance to the axil. Length 17 in., of which the tail from 
the anus measures 13. 5; the head, from the snout to the hinder margin of the oceipital shields, 1.15; fore- 
limb, to thesend of the toes, 1.75; longest toe (third or fourth) 0.5; hind-limb 2.7; longest toe (fourth) 0.95. 
— Colour: Olivaceus grey above, whitish below; there are a few small black spots on the back and sides 
of the neck, and a row of 3 or 4 blue ocelli (those in frount double), with black margins, behind each 
shoulder, extending in a line for a short distance down each side. The sides of the head are bluish, a 
tint especially marked on the labials; throat yellow. — Head shields: Rostral moderate, broader than high; 
nasals forming a suture behind the rostral, and artieulating also with the rostral and upper postnasal. Nos- 
trils in the lower posterior angle of the nasal shield, surrounded by the nasal, rostral, first labial, and 2 
small subequal postnasals. Praefrontal single, broader than long; postfrontals each about equal in size to 
the frontal, meeting behind it in a broad suture: their length exceeds their breadth, and the posterior 
margin of each is very convex exteriorly where it fits into the hollow between the vertical and superciliary 
disk, and concave towards the middle to receive the convex anterior edge of the vertical. Vertical with a 
very slight groove in the middle; sides parallel, anterior and posterior margins convex in the middle. Su- 
pereiliary shields 4 on each side; the anterior small, the 2 central ones nearly equal; posterior about one- 
third the size of a central one; only a very few granules along the exterior edge of the central superci- 
liares between them and the supraorbital ridge. 2 anterior oceipitals of rather irregular form, convex in 
front and behind, and with a salient angle exteriorly, each a little smaller than the vertical. 2 postocci- 
pitals (parietals), each about treble the size of an anterior oceipital; 2 central oceipitals; the anterior the 
