400 TEIIDJE. 



3. Anadia metallica. 



Chalcidolepis metallicus, Cojje, Journ. Ac. PJiilad. (2) viii, 1876, 



p. 110, pi. xxiv. fig. 5. 

 Auadia metallica, Gilnth. Biol. C.-Am., Rept. p. 30. 



Head narrowed and acute in front, with produced rostral shield ; 

 body much elongate ; limbs feeble. Lepidosis much as in the pre- 

 ceding. ]!s ostril in a single nasal ; twenty-three scales in an annulus 

 of the body, and forty-three from occiput to sacrum inclusively ; two 

 large longitudinal prseanal scuta, which embrace a scale between 

 them on the anal border ; they are preceded by another large pair, 

 but of reduced size. Colour light grey with red and green metallic 

 reflections ; the sides are brown, and the middle of the back darker 

 than a line above the brown of the side ; near the light bands a few 

 scales are blackish, forming a row on each side ; below dusted with 

 brown ; head with deep brown sides and white upper lip ; sides of 

 tail brown, with a zigzag upper margin. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 105 Head and body . . 58 



Head to tympanum . 11 Fore limb 13 



Head to axilla .... 17 Hind limb 14*5 



Aguacate Mountains, Costa Rica. 



4. Anadia bogotensis. 



Ecpleopus (Xestosam-us) bogotensis, Peters, I. c. p. 217, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



Head small, snout short, obtusely pointed; body rather elongate. 

 Nostril in a single plate ; supraoculars two, subequal ; a large in- 

 terparietal ; three subequal occipitals ; a small loreal and a freno- 

 orbital ; a row of small infraorbitals ; temples with large shields ; 

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

 one anterior and four pairs, the two first in contact ; gular scales 

 roundish subquadrangular, increasing in size towards the collar- 

 fold ; collar-shields six or seven. Scales of the body subequal, 

 slightly imbricate, squarish, with rounded posterior border, slightly 

 longer than broad ; twentj'-eight scales round the middle of the 

 body, and forty from occiput to sacrum inclusively. Prseanals 

 small, in two or three rows, the posterior composed of six plates. 

 Exposed parts of limbs with large scales. [Males with seven to 

 fourteen femoral pores.] Tail thick, covered with subequal elongate 

 quadrangular scales forming regular annuli. Olive-brown above, 

 with rather indistinct darker markings ; lower surfaces lead- 

 colour. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 120 From end of snout 



Head 11 to vent 55 



Width of head .... 7 Fore limb 14 



From end of snout Hind limb 18 



to fore limb ... 18 Tail (reproduced) . . 65 



