On a new Lizufd from Jamaica. 193 



no. 28, 1895, p. 96), a species describe J tVoin the Upper Rejiiii;^ 

 River, Sarawak, otie of the types of which is now in the 

 British Museum. This form is remarkable in establishing a 

 connecting-link between the sections Itiopa^ Gray, and Ly^o- 

 aunia, Gray. It agrees with the former in the presence of 

 supraiiasals, forming a suture behinil the rostral, with the 

 latter in the frontal shield being much broader than tiie supra- 

 ocular region. In the Sarawak specimen the fifth upper 

 labial is broken up into several shields, there are 38 scales 

 round the body, and the upper parts are yellowish brown 

 with a dark brown band across the frontal region and another 

 across the occipital. In the Larut specimen the fifth labial is 

 as large as the fourth and borders the eye, the scales number 

 40, and the dark brown of tiie occiput extends along the 

 dorsal surface of the body and tail, the sides of which are 

 reddish. 



Lycodon Butleri. 



Closely allied to L. faHciatua^ Anderson, but with a largi^r 

 eye and more strongly angulate ventral and subcaudal shields. 

 Body slightly compressed. Rostral twice as broad as deep, 

 hardly visible from above ; internasals three fifths the length 

 of the prasfrontals ; frontal a little longer than broad, as long 

 as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter than the 

 parietals; lorcal more than twice as long as deep, bordering 

 the eye below the single prteocular; two postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 2-1-2; eight upper labials, third, fourth, and fifth 

 entering the eye; five or six lower labials in contact with the 

 anterior chin-shields, which are as long as the posterior. 

 Scales in 17 rows ; dorsals very feebly keeled. Ventrals '22\- 

 228, strongly angulate laterally ; anal entire ; subcau lals 

 88-92 pairs. Blackish brown above and beneath, with 4:^ or 

 45 rather irregular annuli of whitish spots or edges to the 

 scales. 



Total length 540 millim. ; tail 115. 



Two female specimens from the Larut Hills at altitudes of 

 4000 and 5000 feet. 



XX. — Description of a nem [Jzard from Jamaica. 

 By G. A.BouLENOER, F.R.S. 



r> iploglossHS Bakeri. 



Lateral teeth obtusely tricuspid. Head small, not distinct 

 from neck ; snout short, with obtuse canthiH j ear-opening 

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