new Genus of the Family Lacertide. 113 
Intermediate between Alyiroides, Bibr., and Poromera 
Bigr. ; agreeing with the former in the dorsal lepidosis, with 
the latter i in the ventral, in which it agrees also with Gastro- 
pholis, Fisch. 
In proposing a name for this remarkable new genus, I 
have much pleasure in recalling the services rendered to 
herpetology, and particularly to the study of the Lacertide, 
by my esteemed friend Dr. J. de Bedriaga. 
Bedriagaia tropidopholis. 
Body moderately depressed. Head rather strongly 
depressed, but occipital region convex; snout obtusely 
pointed. Pterygoid teeth Absent: The hind limb reaches 
the elbow of the “adpressed fore limb ; digits slender, some- 
what bent at the articulations. Tail nearly three times as 
long as head and body. Nasals small, forming a very short 
suture behind the rostral ; frontonasal a little broader than 
long ; prefrontals forming an extensive suture; frontal 14 
times as long as broad, slightly shorter than its distance 
from the end of the snout, as broad as the supraoculars, but 
slightly broader in front than behind ; parietals 14 times as 
long as broad, outer border convex ; interparietal scarcely 
longer than broad, a little longer than the occipital, which 
is broader, nearly as broad as the frontal; tour supra- 
oculars, first small, fourth larger and in contact with the 
upper temporal; six superciliaries; two granular scales 
between the supraoculars and the superciliaries. Postnasal 
forming a suture with the frontonasal ; five upper labials 
anterior to the subocular, which is as broad beneath as 
above ; two elongate upper temporals ; temporal scales rather 
large, subequal, obtusely keeled. Gular scales granular in 
front, larger and feebly keeled behind, with a median patch 
of gradually enlarged and imbricate scales in the middle 
towards the collar ; 24 scales in a straight line between the 
symphysis of the chin-shields and the median collar-plate ; 
no gular fold. Collar very strongly serrated, composed of 8 
rather large plates. Scales on nape granular and keeled, on 
body large, rhombic, imbricate and diagonally keeled, passing 
gradually into the ventral plates; 24 scales across the 
middle of the body. Ventral plates strongly, imbricate, 
in 10 longitudinal and 83 transverse series. 6 preanal 
plates. 12-13 femoral pores. 380 lamellar scales under the 
fourth toe. Caudal scales keeled and pointed behind. 
Bluish green above and beneath (in spirit), darker on the 
back ; eight longitudinal series of small round light spots on 
the nape and back, with small black spots between them; 
Ann. & Mag. N. list. Ser. 8. Vol. xviii. 8 
