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only ilia few, mostly small specimens, does the frontonasal broadly join 

 the rostral. 



Lint of fjH'cimenti examined. 



^Frigate Island. 



Mabuya chaiileri, sp. uov. 



Diagnosis. — Lower eyelid with a large, undivided, transparent disk ; 

 scales on the soles spinose ; the adpressed hind limb reaches beyond 

 the elbow of the adpressed fore limb, but not to the axilla; fronto- 

 parietals two; thirty- two scale rows round the body; dorsals feebly 

 tricarinate ; subocular not narrowed below; distance from snout to 

 ear-opening greater thau from ear-opening to axilla and more than 

 one-half the distance from axilla to groin ; color above blackish with 

 large white rounded spots. 



Habitat. — Tana Kiver, East Africa. 



Type.— Vnited. States National Museum, No. 20104; W. A. Chanler 

 coll. 



Description. — Lower eyelid with a medium-sized transparent disk; 

 nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral and the 

 first labial; a small triangular postnasal; anterior loral large, pen- 

 tagonal, in contact with first and third labials; rostral rather promi- 

 nent; supranasals not in contact behind the rostral; frontonasal as 

 wide as long, in contact with the frontal; latter equals in length the 

 frontoparietals and interparietal together, in contact with first, second, 

 and third sui)raoculars ; four supraoculars, first comparatively large, 

 second largest, but not much larger than fourth; five supra ciliaries, 

 second as large as fifth; frontoparietals distinct, as large as the inter- 

 parietal; parietals not meeting behind; a pair of narrow nuchals; five 

 supralabials ante^-ior to the subocular, which is not narrowed iu- 

 feriorly; eight infralabials ; ear-opening oval, fully as large as the 

 transjiarent palpebral disk, with three small obtuse lobules anteriorly; 

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