20. ruocTopoRus. 415 



Six femoral pores on each side. Caudal scales like those of the body. 

 Above light brown, thickh- variegated with black ; sides black ; 

 lower surfaces dark lead-coloured. 



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Total length (tail re- From end of snout to 



produced) 105 vent 73 



Head 15 Fore limb 15 



Width of head 11 Iliud limb 19 



From end of snout to 



fore limb 2G 



Ecuador, 

 a. c?. lutac. Mr. Buckley [C.]. (Type.) 



4. Proctoponis meleagris. (Plate XXII. fig. 2.) 



Head small, short ; body elongate, limbs weak. Frontonasal 

 longer than broad ; frontal slightly smaller ; frontoparietals mode- 

 rate ; parietals forming an oblif[uo suture with a large supra- 

 temporal ; interparietal narrow, not widened iiosteriorlj', as long as 

 parietals ; three occipitals, median very small ; four supraoculars, 

 anterior small; a loreal ; a row of large infraorbitals; temporal 

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

 shields, one anterior and three pairs, the two first pairs forming a 

 suture ; gulars large, quadrangular, a row in contact with the chin- 

 shields very large and elongate ; eight rows of shields between the 

 chin-shields and the edge of the collar ; collar-shields eight, large, 

 elongate. Dorsal scales elongate quadrangular, perfectly smooth, 

 the transverse series iuterrui)ted on the median dorsal line ; thirty- 

 four scales from occiput to sacrum inclusively ; forty-four scales 

 round the middle of the body. Ventrals broader, but not longer 

 than dorsals, in twelve loiigitudinal and twenty-one transverse 

 scries. Three i^ra^anal shields, median smallest, triangular. Limbs 

 with large smooth shields. Eleven or twelve femoral pores on each 

 side, two of which may be termed praeanal. Tail thick, tapering at 

 the end ; scales as on the body. Black, upper parts minutely dotted 

 with whitish. 



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