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body behind the axilla reddish, black-barred and spotted; 

 belly yellowish, spotted with pinkish and dusky on sides; 

 breast and lower jaw brick red, spotted with black; chin y&\- 

 lowish without darker spots; throat black; fore limbs in- 

 feriorly red, black-spotted proximally like the breast; tail and 

 hind limbs below light grayish green. 



Coloration in life of adult female. — Above grayish brown, 

 the dorsum crossed by dusky transverse bars; whole dorsal 

 surface except head spotted with blue-gray; limbs above 

 dusky-barred like back ; head above olive brown, sides of snout 

 grayish. Sides of head and neck from the eye to the ante- 

 humeral spot brick red; sides of body behind the axilla pink- 

 ish, obsoletely spotted with dusky; a black antehumeral spot. 

 Belly and inferior surfaces of hind limbs and tail light gray- 

 ish; breast lemon yellow, spotted with black; throat medially 

 like the breast, spotted with dark brown; sides of body red- 

 dish; lower jaw pinkish, spotted with dusky; fore limbs in- 

 feriorly colored like breast, the forearm unspotted. 



Variation. — The black spots on the back tend to form cross- 

 bars. Fem.ales are colored similarly to the males, but the 

 black dorsal spots usually are somewhat smaller. The throat 

 may be white with black spots, or may be suffused with gray. 

 Large males may have some red on the throat; but this is 

 seen in few specimens, and seems to be always absent in 

 females. The interoccipital plate is wider than long. Varia- 

 tion in scale counts appears in the following table : 



