8 REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM MT. MT7RUD. 



part of the head and a prominent spine upon the occiput ; 

 11 upper and 11 lower labials and three or four rows of enlarged 

 scales parallel with the latter. 



An oblique fold in front of the shoulder. No nuchal crest 

 but three well separated spines on the neck, and groups of three 

 or four spinous scales at intervals down the middle of the back 

 and on to the base of the tail. Upper part of the body covered 

 with very small, smooth imbricate scales with rounded edges, 

 intermixed with enlarged, pointed, keeled scales, all directed 

 upwards and backwards, the larger ones arranged in more or 

 less oblique series and conterminous with the enlarged ver- 

 tebral scales ; ventral scales very large and strongly keeled ; 

 gular scales much smaller, feebly keeled ; limbs covered with 

 large, irregular, keeled scales. 



Tail twice the length of the head and body, compressed 

 laterally, covered with large keeled scales, those below larger 

 than those above. Fourth finger a little longer than third, 

 fourth toe much longer than third, the hind-limb reaches to 

 the tip of the snout. 



Colour. Pale grey above (grey-green in life) with scattered 

 dark brown markings ; the fold in front of the shoulder black. 

 Throat with transverse black lines; belly spotted with grey. 



From snout to vent 60 mm. ; tail 123; fore-limb 37; hind- 

 limb 58. 



The affinities of this interesting lizard are more with the 

 unique Phoxophry.s fuhcrrnlata Hubrecht than with Japalura, 

 and I have therefore placed it in the former genus. 



The single example was captured on a tree trunk. It con- 

 tained two oval eggs about 12 x 7 mm. 



6. Sphenomorphitr murttdensis, sp. nov. 



Type, author's number 7221, collected on the top of the 

 mountain (7000—7200 feet). 



Description of the type. Lower eyelid scaly, tympanum 

 large, two-thirds the size of the eye-opening, no lobules; snout 

 rounded, no supranasals, nostril in a single shield ; rostral 

 convex, in contact with the fronto-nasal , which is broader than 

 long ; praefrontals in contact ; frontal as long as the fronto- 

 parietals and interparietal together, in contact with three 

 supraoculars ; 6 supraoculars, the last very small ; 8 supra- 

 ciliaries; a small shield behind the interparietal, separating 



