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below by a dark brown line; upper lip white, crossed by two 

 oblique brown streaks on each side of the snout ; limbs with brown 

 cross-bars ; lower parts white, the gular appendage greyish on the 

 sides. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 147 Fore limb. 23 



Head 15 Hind limb 44 



Width of head.... 9 Tail 88 



Body 44 



A single male specimen from Chontales, Nicaragua, collected by 

 Mr. E. A. Eix. Presented to the British Museum by Mr. W. M. 

 Crowfoot. 



Akolis rhombifer. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 2.) 



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

 the tibia ; forehead concave ; frontal ridges feebly marked ; upper 

 head-scales feebly keeled; scales of the supraorbital semicircles 

 strongly enlarged, separated by one or two series of small scales ; 

 twelve to fourteen enlarged supraoculars, separated from the supra- 

 orbital scales by a series of very small scales ; occipital as large as 

 the ear-opening, separated from the supraorbitals by three or four 

 series of scales ; canthal scales four ; loreal rows seven ; six 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 small, 

 subimbricate, strongly keeled, much smaller than ventrals ; flanks 

 covered with minute, granular scales ; ventrals imbricate and 

 strongly keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the centre or 

 the anterior border of the eye ; digits moderately dilated ; 14 or 

 15 lamellae under phalanges II. and III. of the fourth toe. Tail 

 scarcely compressed, once and one-fourth to once and one-third 

 length of head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Pale 

 greenish golden above, with two brown stripes originating on the 

 nape above and behind the ears ; between these stripes five large 

 rhomboidal brown spots, the last between the hind limbs ; a small 

 blackish ring on the base of the tail ; lower parts whitish. 



6. $. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 90 128 



Head 12 15 



Width of head 7-5 9 



Body 28 40 



Fore limb 19 24 



Hind limb 34 44 



Tail 50 73 



Two specimens, male and female, from Chontales, Nicaragua, 

 collected by Mr. B. A. Eix. Presented to the British Museum by 

 Mr. W. M. Crowfoot. 



