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round the middle, ventrals largest. Dorsal scales with a groove 

 in the middle, flanked on each side by a swollen band; nuchal 

 scales with three swollen bands separated by two grooves. 

 Praeanal region with one large plate. Tail thick. Limbs slender, 

 the hind limb reaches beyond the wrist; digits with smooth 

 lamellae below. 



Greyish-brown above, with indistinct blackish transverse 

 markings on back and tail. Lower parts white, posterior part 

 of tail and scales of the feet darker. Length of head and body 

 96 mm.; tail (mutilated) 82 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Leyden Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Upper-Kajan river!). 



Only one specimen known. 



6. Tropidophorus grayi Gthr. 



Tropidophorus grayi, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1861, p. 189. 

 Tropidophorus grayi, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 364. 



Shields of head strongly striated; frontonasal divided, more 

 long than broad; an azygos shield between the frontonasals and 



Fig. 97. Tropidophortis grayi Gthr. 



the praefrontals present or absent; latter in contact; frontal 

 as long as or somewhat shorter than frontoparietals and inter- 

 parietal together; four supraoculars, first longest, fourth bordering 



