On new Reptiles from the Andes of South America. 19 



III. — Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Andes of South 

 America, preserved in the British Museum. By G. A. 

 BOULENGEE, F.R.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



Hemidactylus leightoni. 



Snout obtuse, longer than the distance between the eye and 

 the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter ot" the 

 orbit; forehead concave ; ear-opening oval, more than half 

 diameter of eye. Body and limbs moderate. Digits rather 

 short, free, inner well developed; 5 lamellte under the first 

 toe, 7 under the fourth. Snout granular, the granules much 

 larger on the sides of the frontal concavity ; back of head 

 with minute granules intermixed with round tubercles ; 

 rostral completely divided into two by a median cleft ; nostril 

 bordered by five small scales ; 9 or 10 upper and 8 or 9 

 lower labials; symphysial triangular, embraced by a pair of 

 rather large chin-shields forming a median suture beliind it ; 

 a smaller chin-shield on each side of the median pair. Upper 

 parts of body granular, with iiumerous large trihedral, 

 strongly keeled tubercles, smaller than the interspaces 

 between them, disposed in oblique transverse series ; ventral 

 scales smooth, roundisli, imbricate, about 40 across the 

 middle of the belly. Tail slightly depressed, witii transverse 

 rows of enlarged pointed tubercles above, with a series of 

 transversely enlarged plates below. Pale greyish above, 

 with small dark brown spots and dots ; a rather indistinct 

 dark streak on each side of the head, passing through the 

 eye j lower parts white. 



mm. 



Total length 125 



Head 18 



Width of head 13 



Body 42 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 26 



Tail 65 



A single female specimen taken at Honda, Magdalene R., 

 Colombia, 300-400 feet, by Sir Bryan Leighton and presented 

 by him to the British Museum. 



Anolis hoettgeri. 



Head twice as long as broad, as long as or slightly longer 

 than the tibia ; forehead concave ; no frontal ridges ; upper 

 head-scales rugose and more or less distinctly keeled ; scales 



