_1862.] DR. A. GUNTHER ON NEW REPTILES AND FISHES. 189 
of the back and tail. Fingers five, and toes five, all elongate, and 
armed with sharp claws; the middle toe fringed along the basal 
joints. Throat with a small pouch and cross fold. No prominent 
scales at the ear. 
Cutoroscartes Fascratus. (Pl. XXV.) 
Grass-green, with three very broad dark-green cross-bands. 
Feejee Islands. 
Description.—Head rather elevated and obtuse ; pouch below the 
throat and transverse fold in front of the shoulder well developed ; 
body and basal portion of the tail compressed, the latter rounded in 
the middle and posteriorly, tapering, three or four times as long as 
the body. The fore limbs extend backwards to the loin; the third 
and fourth fingers are equal in length. The hind limbs are as long 
as the trunk; the third toe has a series of enlarged triangular scales 
along its inner margin, forming a serrated edge. 
Shields on the upper and lateral parts of the head very numerous 
and smooth. Nostril in a single somewhat elevated shield, situated 
above the second and third upper labials. Rostral shield much 
broader than high, subtriangular; nine upper labials, the posterior 
being considerably lower than the anterior ; there are three or four 
series of small shields between the labials and the eyelid; eyelids 
entirely scaly. Seven lower labials; scales on the throat conically 
elevated. Scales of the upper parts of the body very small, of equal 
size, each with a short keel or conical protuberance. A low crest, 
formed by compressed triangular scales, runs from the occiput to- 
wards the middle of the tail, where it is gradually lost. Scales,on 
the belly in transverse, slightly oblique series, small, but much larger 
than those on the sides, strongly keeled. Limbs with keeled scales 
of moderate size. The scales of the middle and posterior parts of 
the tail are much larger than those on its basal portion; all are 
keeled, the keels forming continuous longitudinal ridges. Each 
femur with a series of twelve to fourteen large pores filled with a 
greasy substance; prceanal pores none. 
Tytnpanum larger than the eye. 
Each jaw with eighteen to twenty teeth on each side; teeth tri- 
cuspid, the lateral points being small; palatines with small teeth 
posteriorly. 
Bright grass-green ; head and nape of the neck, three broad cross 
bands on the trunk, and about fourteen broad rings round the tail 
dark green. Nasal shield white. 
inches. lines. 
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