n. NKUSTICrRUS. 12. ALOPOGLOSSrs. 383 



frequent!}' divided longitudinally. Hind limbs above granular, with 

 large keeled tubercles. Males with fifteen to nineteen femoral pores ; 

 females with two or three pra)aual pores on each side. Brown 

 above, darker spotted ; flanks with more or less distinct lighter 

 spots ; generally a large black ocellus with white centre at axilla ; 

 lower surfaces whitish, usually irregularly brown-dotted. 



millini. millim. 



Total length IGU From end of snout to 



Head 15 vent 61 



Width of head 10 Fore Hmb 20 



From end of snont to Hiudlimb 31 



fore limb 24 Tail 108 



Ecuador ; Upper Amazons. 



a. c? . Amazons. 



b. c? . Brazil. 



c. Harr. Pallatan^a, Ecuador. Mr. Bucldev [C.], 



d. $". W. Ecuador. Mr. Eraser '[C]. 



e. Hgr. ? 



12. ALOPOGLOSSUS. 



Tongue moderately elongate, arrow-headed, without imbricate 

 scale-like papillie, these being replaced by oblique plica) converging 

 towards the median line*. Lateral teeth compressed, bi- or tri- 

 cuspid. Head with large regular shields ; frontonasal separating 

 the nasals ; prsefrontals and frontoparietals present ; nostril pierced 

 in the suture between two nasals*. Eyelids developed, lower with 

 a transparent disk composed of several scales. Ear exposed. Limbs 

 well developed, pentadactyle. Dorsal and lateral scales subequal, 

 large, pointed, imbricate, arranged in transverse and oblique rows ; 

 ventral plates largo, pointed, imbricate, smooth or feebly keeled, 

 arranged in regular longitudinal and transverse rows. A rather 

 indistinct collar-fold. Tail subcylindrical. Males with femoral 

 pores, females without. 



Ecuador ; Peru. 



1. Alopoglossus copii. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 



Leposoma cariniraudatum (non Cope), O'Shauffhn. Proe. Zool. Soc. 

 1881, pp. 233, 2.34. 



Head short, snout very obtuse, almost truncate ; body rather 

 elongate. Frontonasal broad ; two pra;frontals, forming a short 

 suture ; a frontal ; a pair of frontoparietals ; an interparietal and 

 two parietals, these three sliiclds large, equal in size ; no occipitals ; 

 four supraoculars ; a small oblique loreal, resting on the postnasal 

 and a frenoorbital ; second infraorbital very long ; temporal scales 

 keeled ; six or seven upper labials, third very long ; five lower 



* A. carinicaudatiis not examined. 



