2 University of Michigan 



of the parietal shields as great as tiie width of the head meas- 

 ured between the superciliaries at the third supraoculars; outer 

 parietal scales on each side in contact with the enlarged postor^ 

 bital scale or separated from it by one or, rarely, two small 

 scales. Femoral pores 16-24. 



Habitat: Santa ]\Iarta Mountains and vicinity, Colombia. 



Type Specimen : Cat. Xo. 45352, Museum of Zoolog>% 

 University of Michigan; Fundacion, Colombia; August 11, 

 191 3; Frederick M. Gaige, collector. 



Description of Type Specimen : Male. Parietal scales 

 five, their width equalling the width of the head between the 

 superciliaries at the third supraoculars, the outer scale on each 

 side separated from the enlarged postorbital scale by one small 

 scale; supraoculars four; superciliaries five and six; dorsal 

 scales granular, smooth; an anterior row of brachials followed 

 by three rows of smaller scales; antebrachials proximally in 

 two rows, distally in one; femorals in six rows, the upper 

 much the largest; under side of tibia with two irregular rows 

 of large scales flanked by smaller scales; anterior gular scales 

 subequal; mesoptychium with four rows of enlarged scales 

 separated from the Qdge of the collar by two rows of granules; 

 ventral plates in eight longitudinal rows and thirty transverse 

 rows; enlarged preanal scales seven, the three largest in a 

 triangle flanked by a pair of smaller scales the outermost of 

 which bears a .spine ; caudal scales oblique, keeled, shortly 

 pointed posteriorly. Femoral pores 20 and 21. 



The color of the sides is bluish olive spotted with dull 

 white, and suffused with bright orange yellow behind the 

 fore limbs. Two pale, faintly indicated lateral stripes, the 

 lower extending backward from above the temporal region. 



