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20. ANADIA. 



Anadia, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 74. 



Euspondylus, part., Peters, Ahh. Berl. Ac. 1862, p. 206. 



Xestosaunis, Peters, I. c. p. 216. 



Chalcidolepis, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, p. 116. 



Tongue moderately elongate, arrow-headed. Lateral teeth com- 

 pressed, tricuspid. Head with large regular shields ; frontonasal 

 separating the nasals ; proefrontals and frontoparietals present ; 

 nostril pierced in the middle of a single nasal, or in the suture 

 between two nasals. Eyelids developed, lower with a more or less 

 transparent disk composed of several scales. Ear exposed. Limbs 

 well developed, pentadactyle. Scales all smooth, forming unin- 

 terrupted annuli round the body ; dorsals juxtaposed or slightly 

 imbricate, subhexagonal, forming transverse and oblique series ; 

 ventrals little larger than dorsals, quadrangular, forming regular 

 longitudinal and transverse series. A collar fold. Tail cylindrical. 

 Males with femoral pores, females withotit. 



Costa Rica to Ecuador. 



Synoims of the Sjyecies. 



I. Supraoculars four ; body and tail very long, limbs feeble. 



30 scales round the middle of the body, 

 and 58 from occiput to sacrum inclusively ; 

 anterior supraocular smallest 1. oceUata, p. 398. 



33 scales round the middle of the body and 

 48 from occiput to sacrum ; posterior supra- 

 ocular smallest 2. rliomhifera, p. 399. 



23 scales round the middle of the body, and 



43 from occiput to sacrum 3. metalUca, p. 400. 



II. Two supraociilars 4. hogotensis, p. 400. 



1. Anadia ocellata. 



Anadia ocellata, Graij, Cat. p. 74. 



Anadia ocellata, Gray, Proc. Zool. Sac. 1851, pi. vi. fig. 1. 



Ecpleopus? CEuspondvlus) ocellatus, Peters, Abh. Berl. Ac. 1862, 

 p. 212. 

 Head depressed, snout pointed ; body much elongate. Nostril in 

 the suture between two nasals. Frontonasal pentagonal ; a pair 

 of prefrontals forming a long suture ; frontal pentagonal, narrow 

 posteriorly ; a pair of large anterior and a pair of large posterior 

 parietals ; a large parietal ; several small occipitals, the smallest 

 central; four supraoculars, first smallest, second largest, third sepa- 

 rated from supraciliaries by a small supplementary shield ; a loreal, 

 a frenoorbital, and a row of infraorbitals; temples with rather 

 large shields ; seven or eight upper and six lower labials ; chin- 

 shields one anterior and four pairs, the first two and the third an- 

 teriorly forming a suture; gular scales subequal, squarish, juxta- 



