406 TEIID^. 



(i-d. S, 2,&yg- Canelos. Mr. Buckley [0.]. 



e. S . " Sarayacu. Mr. Buckley 0.]. 



f~(/. 2 . Pallatanga. j\Ir. Buckley [C.]. 



2. Euspondylus maculatus. 



Euspondylus maculatus, TscJiudi, Arch.f. Natury. 1845, p. 160, and 



Faun. Per., Herp. p. 42, pi. ii. fig-. 1. 

 Ecpleopus (Euspondylus) maculatus. Peters, I. c. p. 200, pi. ii. fig. 4. 

 (Proctoporus) fraseri, O^Shauyhn. Ann. Sf Mag. N. H. (5) iv. 



1879, p. 296. 



Head depressed, moderately large ; body moderately elongate. 

 The ordinary head-shields*; parietals short, broad, interparietal 

 narrow ; four occipitals ; four supraorbitals, anterior smallest ; a 

 loreal and a frenoorbital ; a row. of extremely small infraorbitals ; 

 temporal shields large; seven upper and six lower labials ; chin- 

 shields, one anterior and four pairs, the two first forming a suture ; 

 gular scales subquadrangular, three transverse rows in front of the 

 collar largest ; collar-shields nine. Dorsal scales quadrangular, 

 slightly rounded posteriorly, about twice as long as broad, straight, 

 slightly keeled on the posterior part of the body ; lateral scales very 

 small, subquadrangular ; forty scales round the middle of the body, 

 including ventrals, and thirty-five from occiput to sacrum inclusively. 

 Yentrals larger than dorsals, more equilateral, in ten longitudinal 

 and twenty-two transverse series. Prseanal shields in two rows, 

 anterior composed of two large shields, posterior containing five 

 narrower ones. Limbs with the normal scaling. Digits rather 

 elongate. [Male with six femoral pores on each side.] Caudal 

 scales quadrangular, forming regular annuli, upper narrower and 

 slightly keeled. OHve above, with small black spots ; a black lateral 

 streak, commencing from the eye, becoming indistinct on the hind 

 part of the body ; lips black-spotted ; lower surfaces whitish, with 

 indistinct small dark spots. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 135 From end of snout to 



* In tbe unique specimen in the British Museum the prefrontals are 

 nbnormally united with tbe frontonasal, on wbicb account it bas been referred 

 to Proctoporus. I have examined a second specimen, a large male, in the 

 Brussels Museum ; tbe head-shields are normal, but the nasal is divided. 



