7iew Lizards in the British Museum. 487 



tlic first row ; three supraoculars, first largest ; a single 

 lorcal and a freno-orbital ; a series of small intraorbitals ; 

 temple with large sliiekls above; 7 upper and 4 to 6 lower 

 labials; chin-shields, one anterior and 3 or 4 pairs, the last 

 separated by a pair of large gulars; a double longitudinal 

 series of transversely enlarged gulars in front of the collar, 

 which is composed of 7 or 9 plates. Dorsal scales elongate, 

 hexagonal, strongly keeled, imbricate, not mucronate; lateral 

 scales small, keeled; 36 to 38 scales round the body (in- 

 cluding ventrals), 35 to 38 from occiput to base of tail. 

 Ventral plates quadrangular, in 8 longitudinal and 18 to 20 

 transverse series, outer smallest and keeled, median largest. 

 3 or 4 large anal plates in a transverse series. Male with 

 8 to 10 femoral pores on each side. Pale brown above, dark 

 grey on the sides; a more or less distinct dark brown verte- 

 bral line ; a dark brown lateral band, light-edged above, 

 fading into the grey of the sides below, from the eye to the 

 tail, usually bearing a series of small black ocelli with white 

 centres ; a white, dark-edged streak from below the eye to 

 the side of the neck, lost before reaching the collar; belly 

 white, with grey dots or round black spots. 



Dim. mm. 



Total length ? 189 



Head 16 14 



Width of head 10 8 



P'rom end of snout to fore limb .... 23 22 



„ „ vent 60 61 



Fore limb 19 18 



Hind limb 20 26 



Body 14 14 



Tail ? 128 



Several specimens from Carabaya, E. Peru, altitude 

 6000-7000 feet, collected by the late Mr. G. Ockenden. 



Amphisbcena SJateri. 



Snout rounded, prominent. Rostral small, triangular, not 

 visible from above ; nasals forming a suture ; a ])air of prae- 

 frontals, the suture between them nearly twice as long as 

 that between the nasals and a little longer than that between 

 the frontals, which are much smaller ; a pair of occipitals ; 

 eye distinguishable under the ocular, which is situated 

 between the prefrontal and tiie second and third upper labials 

 and followed by two superposed postoculars ; four upper 

 labials, fourth very small, second largest ; symphysial fused 

 with a large chin-shield ; four lower labials, second largest. 



