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IIELICOPS ABACVRVS.-Ilo/drooL 



Plate XXVI. 



Characters. Head short, thick, not distinct, but as largo as the neck; eyes 

 and nostrils superior and near the snout: body bhiish-bhick above; flanks marked 

 with transverse bands of bright rod; beneath red, ^vitIl bkack spots disposed w.tli 

 some regularity: tail very short, thick, conical, rounded at the apex with a slight 

 point, one-tenth of total length. PI. 19'). Sc. 31. ° 



Si-NoxyME. Homalopsis Rheinvvardtii, Schlcgel, Thys. des Scrp., torn. ii. p. 357. 



Description. The head is short, thick, a little flattened above, and not 

 distinct from the neck. The vertical plate is short, broad and pentagonal; the 

 occipital plates are large, broad, and irregularly hexagonal; the superior-orbital 

 are small, and nearly regularly quadrilateral; the frontal plates arc almost square, 

 with the posterior external angle lengthened, to form a part of the orbit; there is 

 but one anterior frontal plate, large, triangular, with its apex forward and 

 truncated; the nasal is also single, with the nostrils nearly in its centre; the 

 posterior orbital arc two in number; the anterior orbital is narrow, elongated and 

 quadrilateral; the loral plate is wanting; the rostral plate is very broad, irregularly 

 hexagonal, broadest transversely, and slightly liollowed below. There arc" seven 

 labial plates, increasing in size to the sixth, which is very large; the third and 

 fourth make the inferior wall of the orbit. 



The mouth is small. The nostrils are latero-superior, and near the snout. 

 The eyes are small, also directed obliquely upwards, and placed near the snout; 



