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Elasmodacttlus TUBEECuxosiTs. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.) 

 Body stout, limbs short. Head longer than broad, moderately- 

 depressed, distinct from neck; snout obtusely pointed, a little 

 longer than the distance from the eye to the ear-opening, once and 

 a half the diameter of the orbit; ear-opening oval-subtriangular, 

 its greatest diameter not quite half that of the orbit. Upper sur- 

 face of head covered with small granules, \\-hich are intermixed 

 with larger ones behind ; nostril pierced between the rostral and 

 four scales; rostral once and a half as broad as deep, with median 

 cleft above ; ten upper labials ; nine lower labials ; mental large, 

 posterior border rounded ; no chin-shields ; throat finely granulate. 

 Body and limbs above with granules and tubercles of unequal sizes, 

 the largest of which are subconical and concentrically striated ; the 

 vertebral line with uniform small granules ; belly covered with very 

 small, subinibricate, cycloid, smooth scales. "Digits moderately 

 elongate, not very unequal in length, depressed at the base, dilated 

 into an elongate ovate disk in the distal half; 20 lamella? under 

 the median toe. Uniform dark grey-brown above, dirty white 

 beneath. 



From snout to vent 70 millim. 



Head , . 20 „ 



Width of head 15 „ 



Fore limb 22 „ 



Hind limb 27 „ 



The only specimen, collected by the Eev. J. Pinnock in the 

 district of the Lower Congo, is a female with the tail in an earlv 

 stage of regeneration. 



Anolis eixi. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1.) 



Head once and two-thirds as long as broad, slightly longer than 

 the tibia ; forehead concave ; fronial ridges strong, divergent ; 

 upper head-scales mostly keeled, very small on the snout ; scales 

 of the supraorbital semicircles strongly enlarged, strongly keeled, 

 separated by one series of small scales ; five or six large, strongly 

 keeled supraoculars ; occipital small, separated from the supraorbital 

 semicircles by two series of rather large scales ; canthal scales three ; 

 loreal rows nine ; nine upper labials to below centre of eye ; ear- 

 opening large, vertically oval. Gular appendage moderately large ; 

 gular scales keeled. Body slightly compressed; no dorso-nuchal 

 fold. Dorsal scales large, larger than the ventrals, irregular, and 

 rather unequal in size, feebly imbricate, feebly keeled; flanks 

 covered mth small granular scales ; ventrals subrhomboidal, scarcely 

 imbricate, keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the centre of 

 the eye; digits very feebly dilated; 14 lamellse under phalanges 

 II. and III. of the fourth toe. Tail slightly compressed, once and 

 a half length of head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. 

 Coppery brown above, with a dark brown lateral stripe proceeding 

 from the eye ; a pale stripe from the shoulder to the groin, edged 



