296 Loeertidx. 



and the anterior border of the trmpanam : occipital region quite flat : 

 mout obtti^v pointed, shorter than postocular part of head ; cheeks 

 swollen in the male : length of pileus tirice or a little more than twice 

 its width. Xeck as broad as head. Hind limb reaching the aril, 

 the shonlder. or the collar in the male, the elbow in the female : foot as 

 Ions as the head in the male, usually a little longer in the female. Tail 

 cjlindrieal, 1^ to If times as long as head and body. 



Xostril pierced brtween the nasaL a postnasal and the first upper 

 labiaL Xasals forming a suture behind the rostral " : fp.^ntonasal 

 broader than long ; frontal as long as its distance from the rostral or 

 Uie e&d of the snout, li to If times as long as broad, as broad, 

 IwJiiiwl, as the principal supraoculars or a little broader: parietals 

 If to 1* tiiDes as long as broad, outer border straight or conrex, usuallv 

 not in etmtact with the upper postocular, or, if in contact. Terr narrowlT.-t- 

 Of the two major supraoculars, the first is the longer : 5 or 6 

 sopeiriliaries, the suture between the first and ^cond oblique: an 

 inoMnplete ssies of grantiles between the supraoculars and the super- 

 cifiaries, the granules scmietimes reiiuced to 2 or 3.1 Xo foramen in 

 the int^parietaLf Occipital usually shorter than the interparietal. 

 9ova0diDes broado*. 



Boetr^ not altering the nostril ; a single postnasal : two loreals, 

 first shorter than second. 4 (rarely 5) upper labials anterior to the 

 soboeular, the lower bordw of which is not or but little shorter than 

 the upper. Temple covered with small scales, as large as or smaller 

 than dorsals, these scales sometimes feebly keele^i : no masseteric 

 shidd: tymp^anic shidd sometimes moderate, sometimes small, some- 

 times absent : upper temporal moderately broad, long or short, usually 

 followed by a series of smaller shields,^ 



'So pterygoid teeth. 



* Ib <me apeemen exanined bj Petafca. tlie trcfatoBasal toaChes the njistral 



-f- Mcse exbaiSTtiy in Ute speanteaa. of tiie Tar. kiiouotemsis wiiieh I have 

 ezaBmed in tiie Sans Itnsemii. 



X Ib <ve sjpeaaaeB. examined hy Peataeea tiie aories of gxamdes is eomplete on 

 one aide and tatsaJBj absent on the otiier. Tbe senes is eon^lete in one of the 

 u|i«>^ i—«-n^ desKzibed bf Sfeeanfdd, absent in a male from, the AUnaad Collection 

 intibe Fans 3f nseom. 



§ Tbis inqporfant ehararter.fiist pointed out by Degen, is found in <me other 

 ^yf i f g of tiie geans Lmeert4i. tiie West Afrifan L. eckittata. Cope. Tliat it is 

 not to be xeguded as of genezie import ance is shown \w the genera Draco, 

 JherBs, and Lmtmatia, where we find the foiamen p t cacnt in some species and 

 abeeat in ctbeis, 



4 lozger in tyedmens tnmi the liTKmanjaio district Csnbsp. hihonoUinsU). 



% AKapfft in a fanale &Gra Kegam^a and in the two males in the Pans 



