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ground colour blackish above, with a tinge.of brown; each scale upon upper and lateral 
parts of body and tail, spotted with white; the back presenting alternate lines of black, 
and white spots; the white colour predominant upon the sides; under surface white, sides 
of neck and throat presenting three or four dark-coloured irregular longitudinal lines. 
Dimensions. Length of head, cne inch, one line; greatest breadth, nine and a half; 
length of body to vent, three inches, ten lines; length of tail, four and a half inches; 
(Fr.) Total length, nine inches, five lines. 
Habitat. Gaboon country. Specimen in the Museum of the Academy of Nat. Sciences, 
presented by Dr. Henry A. Ford. Nothing is known of its habits. 
Gen. Remarks. The former description in the Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sciences, is wanting in 
precision, and contains several errors. The country it inhabits, I am informed, is about 
900 miles south of Liberia. 
EUPREPIS HARLANI. NOB. 
Syn. Plestiodon Harlani. Proceed. A. N.&., vol. 11, p. 175. 
Char. Lower eyelid scaly; colour, Indian yellow above; nine or ten transverse bands 
of dark brown upon the sides; the interspaces white mingled with yellow; thirty-one 
rows of scales, tricarinate’ upon back and sides; bedy stout. 
Description. Nostrils large in posterior part of nasal plate; two supero-nasals, quite 
large, contiguous, much broader anteriorly; internasal large, broader than long, its infe- 
rior margin in contact with the first frenal; two fronto-nasals, one line apart; a long 
frontal, much broader anteriorly, presenting three plane surfaces, where it is in contact 
with the inter-nasal, and the two fronto-nasals; two fronto-parictals, about twice as large 
as the fronto-nasals; an inter-parietal, broad in the middle, quite narrow at the extremi- 
ties; two large parietals, no occipitals; a row of larger scales than those upen the back 
behind the orbit and parietal plates; a freno-nasal more extended inferiorly than above; 
two frenals, the anterior higher and more extended than the posterior; two freno-orbitars ; 
the first quadrangular, and larger thai the second; five supra-ciliary scales; lower eye- 
lid scaly; seven superior labials, the last the largest; auricular opening circular; body 
quite stout, more or less quadrangular in shape, with thirty-one rows of hexagonal 
scales, the posterior margin slightly denticulate, each scale upon back and sides, with three 
distinct carine, the lateral carinz the largest; sometimes but rarely four carinze may be 
observed ; scales upon upper part of sides of tail distinctly tri-carinate; scales of abdomen 
and under part of tail smooth; seven preeanal scales; tail round, cyclo-tetragonal at base, 
tapering gradually to a point, third and fourth fingers of about equal length; second toe, 
a little longer than the third; colour, Indian yellow above, the margin of the scale of a 
