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Light above with broad brown cross bands on back and tail; 

 head marmorated with brown Length of head and body 77 

 mm.; tail 103 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra! (Padang?). 



The type-specimen, the only one known, is in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



4. Japalura Gray. 

 (GRAY, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) XII p. 387, 1853). 



Body compressed, covered with unequal scales. Tympanum 

 hidden. An oblique fold in front of the shoulder; gular fold 

 present or absent; gular sac small or absent. A dorsal crest. 

 Tail slightly compressed. No praeanal or femoral pores. 



Distribution. The East Indies; Southern China. 



Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Snout short, nearly as long as the diameter of 

 the orbit ; canthus rostralis rounded ; a small coni- 

 cal rostral appendage i. J. ornata, p. 92. 



B. Snout very short, shorter than the diameter of 

 the orbit 5 canthus rostralis angular; no rostral 



appendage 2. J. nigrilabris, p. 93. 



i. Japalura ornata Lidth. 



Japalura ornata, v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XV 1893, p. 251. 



Snout nearly as long as the diameter of the orbit, with 

 rounded canthus rostralis. A small, conical rostral appendage, 

 lying backwards on the upper part of the head, it measures 

 2.5 mm. and is covered with small imbricate scales. Tympanum 

 hidden; seven upper and lower labials. A transverse gular fold 

 and an oblique one in front of the shoulder; a slight nuchal 

 crest. Body compressed, covered with keeled, unequal scales, 

 a slight dorsal crest. Limbs very long, especially the hind ones; 

 fifth toe nearly as long as third, much longer than first. 



Brownish-red above with small light spots below the eyes. 

 Dark radiating lines from the eye to the upper lip. Length 

 of head and body 57 mm.; (tail broken). 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Sandakan Bay!, Upper-Mahakkam river!, 

 Kina Balu). 



