26. LT0CEPH.VLTT8, 163 



lateral scales very small ; ventrals a little larger than dorsals, 

 smooth, rounded, broader than long ; seventy-one to seventy-nine 

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

 the ear or not quite so far. Tail strongly compressed, crested like the 

 back. Olive-brown above, with small lighter spots, with or without 

 transverse dark brown spots on the back and tail ; hinder side of 

 thighs frequently wnth a white, dark-edged longitudinal band ; lower 

 surfaces pale olive, the male's throat darker ; transverse curved series 

 of small whitish dark-edged round spots from side to side across the 

 belly. 



milliin. millim. 



Total length 215 Fore limb 34 



Head 20 Hind limb 6S 



Width of head 17 Tail 110 



Body 85 



San Domingo. 

 a-c. J & hgr. S. Domingo. — Parker, Esq. [P.] 



2. Liocephalus macropus. 



Liocephalus macropus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 184, and 1868, 

 p. li'i>. 



Much like L. vittatiis, but differs in the greater breadth and 

 smoothness of the head-shields, and in the granular nature of the 

 scales for some distance posterior to the ear-opening. Hind limb 

 quite or nearly reaching end of snout. Above olive, often with a 

 metallic lustre ; sometimes brownish ; a transverse interscapular 

 and crural pale-bordered spot, which is often indistinct ; a blackish 

 band extends from the orbit to the groin, mostly varied with white 

 near the axilla, obsolete posteriorly ; beneath yellowish or greenish, 

 the gular region sometimes streaked with black. 



From snout to vent 70 millim. ; tail 110 millim. 



Eastern Cuba. 



3. Liocephalus vittatus. 



Leiocephalus schreibersii, (mo?* Gravh.) Gray, Cat. p. 218. 

 Holotropis vittatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1856, p. 151. 

 Liocephalus vittatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 184, and 1868, 



p. 122. 



raviceps, Cope, II. cc. pp. 183, 122. 



Leiocephalus (Holotropis) vittatus, lieinh. S) Liitk. Vidensk. Meddel, 



1862, p. 271. 



Upper head-scales large, striated ; nasal in contact with the 

 rostral ; supraorbitals in contact ; supraoculars six, band-like, sepa- 

 rated from the supraorbitals by a series ot" small scales ; parietals 

 two pairs on one row, subequal, or outer pair a little larger. Sides 

 of neck strongly plicate, covered with pointed, imbricate, keeled 



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