13. icHNOTiions. 7D 



Ilcad-shields strongly strialed and keekd ; frontonasal single; 

 interparietal iieutagonal, its posterior border forming a suture with 

 a distinct occipital ; parictals with roundrd or angular posterior 

 border ; two or three elongate shields on the outer border of the 

 parietals ; subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth 

 (or tit'th and sixth) upper labials. Dorsal scales nearly as largo as 

 caudals ; vciitrals rounded, in 10 longitudinal series; 35 to 40 

 scales round the middle of the body. Piieaiial scales small, sub- 

 equal. The hind limb reaches the axilla or the shoulder. 9 to 12 

 (or 13) femoral pores on each side. Tail once and a half to twice 

 the k'ugth of head and body. Yellowish or reddish brown above, 

 with three longitudinal series of black spots on each side, more or 

 less confluent into longitudinal bands, separated by light yellowish 

 streaks ; the lower black baud extends along the upper lip ; lower 

 surfaces yellowish white. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 137 156 



Head 15 14 



Width of head 9*5 9 



From end of snout to fore limb .... 24 23 



From end of snout to vent 61 66 



Fore limb 21 21 



Hind limb 32 31 



Tail 76* 90 



Inhambane, Delagoa Bay, Kalahari Desert, Angola. 



a. cJ, bad state. N.E. of Lattaku, to- Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type of 

 wards the tropic Tropidosaura dunicrilii.) 



of Capricorn. 



h-c. cJ $ . Duque de Bragance, Prof. Barboza du Bocage [P.]. 



Angola. (As typical of I. hivittata.) 



2. Ichnotropis squamulosa. 



Ichnotropis squamulosa, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 617, and 

 Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 40, pi. viii. fig. 2. 



Head-shields strongly striated and keeled ; frontonasal longi- 

 tudinally divided ; interparietal rhomboidal ; no distinct occipital ; 

 parietals obliquely truncated posteriorly ; a large shield bordering 

 the parietals exteriorly ; subocular not reaching the lip, resting on 

 the fifth, sixth, and seventh upper labials. Dorsal scales consider- 

 ably smaller than caudals ; ventrals rounded, in 10 longitudinal 

 series ; 46 or 48 scales round the middle of the body. The 

 hind limb reaches the shoulder or the antehumeral fold. 13 to 15 

 Cor 16) femoral pores. Tail nearly twice as long as head and body. 

 Coppery brown above, with two or three longitudinal series of small 



* Tail reproduced. 



