3. DIPL0GL0SSU8, 293 



fore limb as long as the head. Tail compressed. Fulvous above, 

 with narrow longitudinal reddish-grey bands. 



From snout to vent G4 millim. 



Hah. ? 



13. Diploglossiis steindachneri. 



Diploglossus steindachneri, Co2)e, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1864, p. 179 ; 



Bocoiirt, Miss. Sc. Mex., liept. p. 383, pi. xxii. fig. 3 ; G'unth. 



Biol. C.-Ani., liept. p. 34, pi. xxii. tig. A. 



chalybiBUs, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 186G, p. 321. 



Celestus steindachneri, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 123. 



chalvbeeus, Cope, I. c, and Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. xxii. 1885, 



p. 170. " 



Lateral teeth bicuspid. Head scarcely distinct from neck ; snout 

 short, canthus rostralis obtuse ; ear-opening small ; a largo azygos 

 prajfrontal, broader than and in contact with the entire anterior 

 border of the frontal, separated from the loreals by a shield and 

 from the rostral by two pairs of shields ; frontal once and a half as 

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

 supraoculars by three shields ; nasal in contact with the rostral ; 

 two superposed postnasals ; three consecutive loreals ; rostral a 

 little narrower than the mental ; the suture between the eighth and 

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

 shields on each side, first in contact with the lower labials. Eody 

 elongate, rounded, a little depressed. Thirty-one or thirty-three 

 scales round the middle of the body ; dorsals finely striated, not 

 keeled. Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed ; digits moderate, 

 claws exposed. Tail a little compressed in its posterior half, the 

 scales on which are keeled. Olive-brown above, some of the 

 median dorsal scales with short dark brown shaft ; sides tessellated 

 with small dark brown and greenish spots; lower surfaces pale olive. 

 Spec, h entirely of a dark olive-brown. 



millim. millim. 



Total length (tail re- Body 96 



produced) 200 Fore limb 24 



Head 19 Hind limb 31 



Width of head 15 



Mexico; Guatemala. 



a. Ad. Vera Paz, Low Forest. O. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. Mexico. 



Siderolamjjrus enneafjrammiis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, 

 p. 368, is perhaps nothing but the young of this species. 



14. Diploglossus sagrae. 



Diploglossus sagra?, Graij, Cat. p. 119. 

 Diploglossus sagrte, Cocteau, in It. de la ISaijra, Ilist. Cuba, liept. 



p. 180, pi. XX. ; Dum. l*j- Bibr. v. p. 603 ; Bocourt, Jliss. iHc. Me.v., 



Kept. p. 378, pi. xxii. fig. 1. 

 Celestus sagi'se, C'o/;p, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 123. 



