20 Storer on the 
covered above with longitudinal rows of imbricated 
scales; color above, a deep shining black, with five 
longitudinal deep golden yellow lines; abdomen, 
of alight yellow color ; tail, a deep sky blue, blended 
with yellow and black lines, whith run longitudi- 
nally along the back. 
A yellow line, conitviending fover each nostril, 
passes obliquely backwards, and, approaching each 
other, they unite at the distance of rather more than 
a quarter of an inch back of their origin, forming 
a dorsal line, which, continued the whole length 
of the body, is lost upon the tail; on each side of 
this dorsal line, runs another, which arises at the 
superior anterior angle of the eye, and terminates 
like the preceding ; beneath this, is still another, 
commencing at the snout, interrupted only by the 
meatus of the ear, and continued, like the others, 
upon the tail. These yellow lines give the back 
the appearance of being divided into yellow and 
black longitudinal lines. Head, half an inch long ; 
one quarter of an inch wide; with large plates 
above. Eyes, small. External meatus of the ear, 
vertical, large. Anterior feet short, with five toes, 
each armed with a sharp nail. Posterior extremi- 
ties, large; second toe very much elongated, and 
all the toes, like those of the fore feet, nailed. 
Extremities above, of a brown color, having à 
longitudinal yellowish white line running along their 
posterior portion to the toes. 
The ventis transverse, situated just back of the 
interior of the thighs. Tail longer than the body, 
its posterior portion a deep blue. 
The species feeds upon insects. 
