24. LioL^Mus. 157 



orbital ; temporal scales smooth ; anterior border of ear not den- 

 ticulated. Sides of neck strongly plicate, covered with minute gra- 

 nular scales. Dorsal scales small, subhexagonal, feeblj' imbricate, 

 keeled ; lateral scales smaller, roundish, juxtaposed, smooth ; ventrals 

 larger than dorsals, rhomboidal, smooth ; sixty-six to seventy-two 

 scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches the tympanum, or not quite so far ; hinder side of thighs 

 uniformly granular, or with a i)atch of enlarged granules. Eight 

 anal pores in the male. Tail a little depressed, slightly longer than 

 head and body ; caudal scales larger than dorsals. Pale greyish 

 above ; a series of darker spots on each side of the vertebral line ; 

 two darker bands on each side from axilla to groin, separated by a 

 white streak ; lower surfaces uniform white, or with small greyish 

 spots on the thi'oat. 



Total length 112 millim. 



Head 13 „ 



"Width of head 9-5 „ 



Body 39 „ 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 31 



Tail GO 



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Southern Brazil. 



a. Iltrr. Eio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Iheriug [C.]. (Type.) 



i-/". d, $,&ligT. Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. II. v. Diering [C.]. 



22. Liolaenms multimaculatus. 



Proctotretus multimaculatus, Gray, Cat. p. 217. 

 Proctotretus multimaculatus, Dum. c^- I^ibj: iv. p. 290 ; BeU,Zool. 



Beuf/le, Bepf. p. 17, pi. ix. tig. 1 ; Gidclten. in Gay, Hist. Chile, 



Bept. p. 42. 

 Liolamus (Liodeira) multimaculatus, Fitziiicj. Si/st. liept. p. 74. 

 Ortholsemus beaglii, Girard, Proc. Ac. I'hilad. 18-")7, p. 198, ayid 



U.S. Explor. Ex})ed., Hvrp. p. ."iOO, pi. xvii. ligs. 15-21. 

 multimaculatus, Girard, II. cc. 



Nostril superior. Upper head-scales very small, convex, smooth ; 

 no frontal ; interparietal much smaller than the tympanum ; a series 

 of six or seven transversely enlarged supraoculars ; two or three 

 series of scales between the labials and the infraorbital ; temporal 

 scales smooth ; anterior border of car not denticulated. Sides of 

 neck granidar, strongly plicate. Dorsal scales very small, sub- 

 hexagonal, scarcely imbricate, feebly keeled ; lateral scales a little 

 smaller, separated from one another by mintite granules ; ventrals 

 much larger than dorsals, squarish, smooth ; seventy-two or seventy- 

 four scales round the middle of the body, of which twentv-six or 

 twenty-eight are ventrals. The adpressed hind limb reachet a little 

 beyond the shoulder ; liinder side of thighs with a ])atch of enlarged 

 rhomboidal scales ; the digits, which are very slender, and provided 



