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Elasmodactylus tuberculosus. (Place XLVIL 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 coA r ered with small granules, which 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 subcorneal and concentrically striated ; the 

 vertebral hue with uniform small granules ; belly covered with very 

 small, subimbricate, c} r cloid, 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 lamellae under 

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

 beneath. 



From, snout to vent 70 millim. 



Head , . 20 „ 



Width of head 15 „ 



Bore limb 22 „ 



Hind limb 27 „ 



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

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

 stage of regeneration. 



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



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

 the tibia ; forehead concave ; frontal 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. G-ular 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 with small granular scales; ventrals subrhomboidal, scarcely 

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

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

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

 a half length of head and body. JNo 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 



