296 ANGUID^. 



A large nine-sided prsefrontal between the frontal and the rostral ; 

 posterior border of latter shield chevron -shaped; parietals small, 

 longer than broad, separated from the frontal by the frontoparietals ; 

 seven upper labials. Scales in forty-four longitudinal rows, the 

 dorsals striated. Tail very elongate. Colour above light brown, 

 with numerous small dark brown spots on the dorsal region; sides 

 dark brown, darker anteriorly, where a bandlike arrangement is 

 assumed as far as the orbit; from the ear-opening posteriorly, this 

 is crossed by numerous blackish-brown vertical bars, with irregular 

 light posterior borders ; chin whitish, abdomen yellowish. 



millim. millim. 



From snout to vent . 94 Fore limb 13 



Head, to ear 17 Hind limb 19 



Near Jeremie, S. Domingo. 



6. OPHIODES. 



Ophiodes, Wagler, Isis, 1828, p. 740, and Sj/st Amph. p. 159; Dum. 



6)- Bihr. V. p. 788 ; Gray, Cat. Liz. pp. 99, 120 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. 



Mex., Bept. p. 457. 

 Pygodaetylus {non Men-.), Wagl. U. cc. pp. 741 & 160. 



No lateral fold. Scales roundish-rhomboidal, arranged quincun- 

 cially on the back, forming vertical series on the sides. No fore 

 limbs ; styliform rudiments of hind limbs. Teeth conical. Palate 

 toothless. 



South America. 



1. Ophiodes striatus. 



Ophiodes striatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 99. 

 Pygopus striatus, Sj)ix, Sjjec. Kov. Lac. Bras, p. 25, pi. xxviii. fig. 1. 



caiiococca, Spix, I. c. p. 26, fig. 2. 



Ophiodes striatus, TVaffl. Isis, 1828, p. 740 ; Bum. j- Bihr. v. p. 789 ; 



Gravenh. Nova Acta Ac. Leop.-CaroJ. xxiii. 1851, i. p. 379, pi. xliv. ; 



Girard, U. S. Exphr. Exped., Herp. p. 225 ; Cojje, Proc. Ac. 



Fhilad. 1862, p. 350; Bocourt, 3Iiss. Sc. Mex., Bept. p. 458, 



pi. xxii. G. fig. 4. 

 Pygodactylus gronovii {non Daud.), Wayh I. c. p. 741. 



A large azygos praefrontal (abnormally divided), separated from 

 the rostral by two pairs of shields ; frontal large, much longer than 

 broad ; interparietal as broad as, or slightly broader than the 

 parietals, longer than the occipital ; nasal in contact with the 

 rostral; three or four enlarged shields on each side behind the 

 postmental, only the first or the first two in contact with the lower 

 labials. Ear-opening almost or quite hidden. Scales smooth, the 

 dorsals finely striated ; twenty-five or twenty-seven round the 

 middle of the body. Kudimentary hind limbs styliform. Tail 

 about once and a half the length of the body. Brownish or olive- 

 grey above, with a variable, but even, number of dark brown longi- 



