118 LACERTIDA. 
millim 
Total length .......... eae 112 
Head) s.9.cesn eae aves as penewns 17 
Pail sass vegeayeseaeoeesees 57 
Mossamedes. 
17. HOLASPIS. 
Holaspis (Smith), Gray. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, p. 152; Lataste, Ann. 
Mus. Genov. (2) ii. 1885, p. 125. 
No frontoparietals ; a large interparietal in contact with the 
frontal ; occipital present. Nostril pierced between two nasals, 
above the first labial. Lower eyelid scaly. Collar distinct. Two 
series of large, smooth, transverse shields along the nape, back, and 
tail ; lateral scales small. Ventral platessmooth. Digits depressed 
and denticulated laterally in their basal half, compressed distally ; 
subdigital lamella smooth. Femoral pores. Tail much depressed, 
fringed laterally. 
West Africa. 
1. Holaspis guentheri. 
Holaspis guentheri (Smith), Gray, 1. c. p. 153, pl. xx. fig. 1; F. 
Miiller, Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 702. 
Head and body much depressed ; snout long and pointed. Fronto- 
nasal forming a suture with the rostral; interparietal larger than . 
the frontal, in contact with a trapezoid occipital ; four supraoculars ; 
subocular bordering the lip, between the fourth and fifth upper 
labials ; temporal scales granular, flat, smooth; no auricular den- 
ticulation ; the three anterior pairs of chin-shields in contact. 
Collar straight, with nine small plates. Dorso-lateral scales elon- 
gate, quadrangular, keeled ; ventral plates in six longitudinal rows. 
A large preanal plate. 13 femoral pores. Brown above, with three 
whitish longitudinal lines on each side. 
millim, millim, 
Total length ...... 74 Fore limb ........ 13 
Head ............ 10 Hind limb ........ 18 
Width of head .... 5 Tail(reproduced).... 36 
BOGy” nei o 0 caieeey 28 
Gold Coast (?), Sierra Leone, Gaboon, Congo. 
a, Ad. a P Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 
