118 IACEKTID-2E. 



millim. 



Totallength 112 



Head 17 



Tail 57 



Mossamedes. 



17. HOLASPIS. 



Holaspis (S7nM), Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 162 ; Lataste, Ann. 

 Mus. Genov. (2) ii. 1885, p. 125. 



No frontoparietals ; a large interparietal in contact with the 

 frontal ; occipital present. Nostril pierced between two nasals, 

 above the first labial. Lower eyelid scaly. Collar distinct. Two 

 series of large, smooth, transverse shields along the nape, back, and 

 tail ; lateral scales small. Ventral plates smooth. Digits depressed 

 and denticulated laterally in their basal half, compressed distally ; 

 siibdigital lamellae smooth. Femoral pores. Tail much depressed, 

 fringed laterally. 



"West Africa. 



1. Holaspis giientheri. 



Holaspis guentheri (Smith), Grmj, I. c. p. 153, pi. xx. fig. 1 ; F. 

 Mailer, Verh. Naturf. Ges, Basel, \\x. 1885, p. 702. 



Head and body much deja-essed ; snout long and pointed. Fronto- 

 nasal forming a suture with the rostral ; interparietal larger than 

 the frontal, in contact with a trapezoid occipital ; four supraoculars ; 

 subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth upper 

 labials ; temporal scales granular, flat, smooth ; no auricular den- 

 ticulation ; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. 

 Collar straight, with nine small plates. Dorso- lateral scales elon- 

 gate, quadrangular, keeled : ventral plates in six longitudinal rows. 

 A large pra^anal plate. 13 femoral pores. Brown above, with three 

 whitish longitudinal lines on each side. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 74 Fore limb 13 



Head 10 Hind limb 18 



Width of head 5 Tail (reproduced) 86 



Body 28 



Gold Coast (?), Sierra Leone, Gaboon, Congo. 

 a. Ad. ? Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 



