3. niPLOGLOSsus. 287 



chin-sUielcls on each side, first two in contact with the lower labials. 

 Body elongate, rounded, slightly depressed. Tliirty-seven scales 

 round the middle of the body, dorsals apparently striated but keel- 

 less (all tlie epidermic plates are lost). Limbs short, not meeting 

 when adpresscd ; digits short, the claws sheathed as in the preceding 

 species. Tail slightly compressed. '• Colour : sides with several 

 widely-placed vertical brown bands or patches, within which one or 

 two conspicuous white spots ; a bluish- white stripe before the 

 axilla." 



millim. niillim. 



Total length (end of Body 72 



tail lost) 173 Fore liaib 17 



Head 15 Hind limb 24 



Width of head .... 11 



Costa Eica. 



a. Ad. ? Costa Rica. (Type. ) 



3. Diploglossus fasciatus. 



Diploglossus fasciatus, Gnu/, Cat. p. 120. 

 Tiliqua fasciata, Grcn/, Griff'. A. K. ix. ISyn. p. 71. 

 Euprepes fasciata, Bctiss, Miis. Sencke?ih. i. p. 51, pi. iii. fig. 2. 

 Diploglossus fasciatus, Wicym. Herp. Mex. p. 30, and Arch. f. Nat. 



1837, p. 130} Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 389, pi. xxii. 



fig. 5. 

 houttuynii, {Coct.) Dnm. ^- Bihr. v. p. 597. 



Lateral teeth with obtuse crowns. Head mnch depresed ; snout 

 truncate ; canthus rostralis obtuse ; ear-opening smaller than the 

 eye-opening ; three pra^frontals ; azygos a little larger, as broad as 

 long or broader than long, separated from the frontal or in contact 

 071 a very small point, separated from the loreal by one shield and 

 from the rostral by two pairs ; frontal not once and a half as long 

 as broad ; parietal on each side separated from the frontal and 

 supraoculars by two shields ; nasal usually separated from the 

 rostral ; one or two postnasals ; rostral much broader than tlie 

 mental ; the suture between the seventh and eighth, or eighth and 

 ninth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye ; four chin- 

 shields on each side, two anterior in contact with the lower labials. 

 Body subtetragonal, slightlj' depressed. Forty to forty-four scales 

 round the middle of the body ; dorsals and laterals not keeled, 

 finely striated. The limbs fail to meet when adpressed ; digits 

 rather short, the claws sheathed as in the two preceding species. 

 Tail cylindrical, a little longer than head and body. Upper surfaces 

 with alternating pale greenish and brown darker-edged bands of 

 equal width, the brown bands uniting on the abdomen, which is of 

 the latter colour ; the first brown band crosses the nostrils, the 

 second the eyes, the third the ears ; seven others between the latter 

 and the tail, which is regularly annulate ; limbs brown. 



