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2. HOMBRONIA FASCIOLARIS, Grd. 

 (Plate XXVII, figs. 25-32.) 



CHAR. SPEC. Seriebus squamarum longitudinalibus sex et viginti. Scuto 

 rostrall depresso, Jiemidlscoide ; sculis nasaHbus xalde distantibus, 

 postfrontalibus fere contiguis. Disco pellucido palpebrae inferioris 

 subcentrali. Apertura audiforia maxima. Squamis caudalibus et 

 dorsualibus subaequalibus. Cauda longissima. Colore olivaceo-viridi ; 

 dorso punctate ; later ib us superne vitta obscura ornatis, inferne aeque 

 ac abdomine cinereo lineolatls. 



SPEC. CHAR. Twenty-six longitudinal series of cales. Rostral plate 

 low, hemidiscoid. Xasals wide apart. Postfrontals nearly conti- 

 guous. Transparent disk of lower eyelid subcentral. Auricular 

 aperture very large. Dorsal and caudal scales subequal. Tail very 

 long. Greenish-olive ; back speckled ; upper part of sides with a 

 dark streak ; lower part and belly lineolated with greyish. 



ST.V. Homlronia faseiolaris, GRD. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Soi. Philad. November, 

 1857. 



DESCR. Compared to the preceding one, this species is of a much 

 more slender appearance : the tail being proportionally much longer, 

 since it measures three inches, whereas the body and head combined 

 do not quite give an inch and three-fourths. The body is obtusely 

 four-sided, and much more depressed, broader than deep, and so is the 

 neck also. The tail itself is subconical, deeper than broad, and taper- 

 ing into a more attenuated point. The head is a good deal shorter, 

 and the auricular aperture much larger. The limbs are very slender, 

 and not so far apart; the anterior pair, in being brought forwards, ex- 

 tends as far as the angles of the mouth, owing to its shorter neck. 



The rostral plate is quite low and hemidiscoid. The nasals, sub- 

 trapezoid in shape, are mostly lateral ; their anterior angle showing 

 slightly in an upper view of the head: they are, however, widely kept 

 apart by the odd, subrhomboid prefrontal, which is contiguous to the 

 rostral, as in the former species. The postfrontals, smaller than the 

 prefrontal, and irregularly rhomboid, approximate more closely toge- 



