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nasal, postnasal, first labial, and rostral plates ; postnasal 

 touching nasal, internasal, anterior loreal, and first and 

 second labials ; anterior loreal forming sutures with post- 

 nasal, internasal, frontonasal, prefrontal, posterior loreal, 

 and second and third labials: posterior loreal the larger; 

 two preoculars ; four large supraoculars: interparietal 

 larger than either frontoparietal, narrower than is usual 

 in E. skiltonianus; parietals very large, sometimes in 

 contact behind, followed by one or two pairs of occi- 

 pitals: temporals very large; upper labials eight, the 

 last largest; symphysial very broad, followed by two 

 broad azygos sublabials ; several paired sublabials in 

 contact with the inf ralabials ; scales everywhere smooth, 

 strongly imbricate except on head ; median subcaudals 

 very wide; upper caudals about the size of the dorsals, 

 larger than the laterals, ventrals and gulars; twenty-four 

 or twenty-six rows of scales around the middle of body; 

 ear-opening about the size of an abdominal scale, feebly 

 denticulate. 



Adult brownish olive-buff above, slightly bronzed or 

 faintly washed with red, without traces of longitudinal 

 lines ; dorsal scales edged with darker brown, often show- 

 ing central spots of verdigris green ; tail greenish or 

 grayish yellow; limbs like back, without darker mark- 

 ings ; head and more or less of neck bright poppy red 

 slightly tinged with carmine, brightest near ear-opening, 

 sometimes tinged with olive on top of head; lower sur- 

 faces, except of head, dull yellowish white. 



Young with head and back dark seal brown, lighter on 

 the centers of the scales, with four longitudinal light lines; 

 lower line on each side indistinct except between ear and 

 fore limb; upper pair of light lines broader than in E. 

 skihonianiis, separated by only two rows of scales; limbs 

 olive, darkest on the margins of the scales; tail bluish 



