35. RHACODACTTLUS. 3G. LT7PKROSAUBU3. 181 



Tail long, slender, cylindrical, covered with small juxtaposed scales, 

 its distal extremity with a rounded flap of skin, placed horizontally. 

 Yellowish or reddish-brown, lighter beneath. 



Total length (tail reproduced, 



rudimentary) 109 millim. 



Head 33 



Width of head 24 



Body 6S 



Fore limb 36 



Hind limb 46 



New Caledonia. 



36. LUPEROSAURUS. 



Luperosaurus, Gray, Cat. p. 163. 



Digits strongly dilated, half-webbed, with undivided, angularly 

 curved lamellae below; all but the thumb and inner toe with a 

 very short compressed distal phalanx with retractile claw. Limbs 

 bordered with cutaneous lobes. Upper and lower surfaces covered 

 with juxtaposed granular scales. Pupil vertical. Males with praB- 

 anal pores. 



Philippine Islands. 



1. Luperosaurus cumingii. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 



Luperosaurus cumingii, Gray, I. c. 



Head regularly oviform ; snout longer than the distance from the 

 eye to the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of the 

 orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening very small, subcircnlar. Body 

 and limbs moderate ; digits short, not very unequal, half-webbed ; 

 the limbs bordered on each side by a cutaneous fringe, that extend- 

 ing from the vent to the tarsus being much developed ; an angular 

 lobe of skin closes the vent in the female. Tail shorter than the 

 body, convex superiorly, flat inferiorly, probably prehensile. Head, 

 back, and limbs covered with extremely minute granules ; rostral 

 large, square ; nostril pierced between the latter, the first labial, 

 and three or four small nasals ; sixteen upper and fourteen or 

 fifteen lower labials ; rostral trapezoid, not larger than the nearest 

 labials ; no chin-shields ; throat minutely granulate ; belly covered 

 ■with small flat juxtaposed granules. Tail indistinctly annulate," 

 covered with small flat granules, rather larger inferiorly, the lateral 

 keel with a slight fringe formed by projecting elongate scales. 

 Purplish-brown above, marbled with darker ; lower surfaces whitish, 

 beUy with narrow transverse brown lines. 



Total length 129 millim. 



Head 20 „ 



"Width of head 17 „ 



