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XXVI. — Descriptions of Three new Lizards and a new Frog, 

 dittcovered bi/ l>r. \V. J. Ansorge in Angola. 15y G. A. 

 BOULENGER, F.K.8. 



PhyUudactglus A nsurgi i. 



Ht'ad rather small, oviform, much longer than broad ; sDout 

 not longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, which is small and oval. Body very elongate ; 

 limbs moderate. Digits moderately depressed, with large, 

 subtrapezoid terminal expansions ; eight lamellae under the 

 fourth toe. Head and body covered with uniform, smooth, 

 flattened granules, which are larger on the snout and on the 

 belly. Rostral twice as broad as deep, without cleft above ; 

 symphysial small, a little longer than broad ; ten upper and 

 as many lower labials ; rostral and first upper labial entering 

 the nostril ; no chin-shields. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 covered with uniform, small, quadrangular, smooih scales. 

 A curved transverse series of 8 or D eidarged praeanal scales 

 (indicating praianal pores in the male?). Pale greyish brown 

 above, with a series of large whitish spots along each side of 

 the back ; a dark streak on each side of the head and neck, 

 passing through the eye; upper lip and lower parts white, 

 with small brown spots. 



mm. 



Total length 75 



Head 10 



Width of head 



Body 3') 



Fore limb 12 



Hind limb 15 



TaU 'iO 



Two female specimens from Maconjo, Benguella. 

 The more slender form and the enlarged praeanal scales 

 ■well distinguish this species from P. porpltyreuSj Duud. 



Mabuia Icevis. 



Uead and body much depressed. Snout short, pointed. 

 Lower eyelid with a very large undivided transparent disk. 

 Nostril behind the vertical of the suture between the rostral 

 and the first labial ; a postnasal ; anterior loreal in contact 

 with the first labial ; supranasals narrow atid widely separated 

 by the fronto-nasal, which forms a suture with the rostral and 

 with the frontal ; frontal as long as fronto-parietals and inter- 

 parietal together, in contact with the first, second, and third 



