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rather larger than the latter. The auricular aperture is large, subcir- 

 cular, and simple. 



The body is subquadrangular, rather depressed, separated from the 

 head by a somewhat contracted neck. The tail is depressed at the 

 base, conical, and tapering posteriorly into a point ; it is equal in 

 length to the body and head combined. The limbs are slender and 

 rather weak ; when the anterior pair is bent backwards, and the pos- 

 terior pair forwards, the tips of the fingers and toes barely meet; again, 

 the anterior pair, in being brought forwards, scarcely extends beyond 

 the anterior edge of the auricular aperture. The fingers and toes them- 

 selves are unequal, very slender, and clawed ; protected beneath by 

 large, transverse plates, whilst the palms and soles are coarsely granu- 

 lar or tubercular. 



The scales which protect the body are proportionally well developed, 

 and disposed upon thirty longitudinal series around the middle of the 

 body. They are subequal, somewhat smaller on the flanks than on 

 the back and belly, and smaller still on the sides of the neck than on 

 the flanks. The t\vo middle preanal scales are a good deal larger than 

 the adjoining ones upon the interfemoral region; they are subequal 

 also around the tail, and apparently smaller than on the back and 

 belly, though they are, in fact, equal sized, but instead of being sub- 

 rhomboid, and posteriorly rounded, they assume a more elongated or 

 sublanceolated shape, being rather acute posteriorly. The scales which 

 cover the limbs are much smaller than those on the flanks. 



The color of the dorsal region is light brown, spread over with 

 darker specks ; the head being unicolor. A lateral dark brown streak, 

 interrupted or speckled with whitish or yellowish, extends from the 

 eye to a certain distance along the tail; the side of the head is mottled 

 with light and dark brown, as also the lower half of the flank. The 

 inferior regions are light brown, unicolor. 



Loc. Caldera, on Mindanao, Philippine Archipelago. 



GENUS HINULIA, GRAY. 



GEN. CHAR. The body is subcylindrical, rounded, covered with per- 

 fectly smooth scales. The two middle dorsal rows larger than the 

 rest, and the two middle preanal scales also much larger than the 



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