24, LIOL-EMUS. 157 
orbital; temporal scales smooth; anterior border of ear not den- 
ticulated. Sides of neck strongly plicate, covered with minute gra- 
nular scales. Dorsal scales small, subhexagonal, feebly imbricate, 
keeled ; lateral scales smaller, roundish, juxtaposed, smooth ; ventrals 
larger than dorsals, rhomboidal, smooth; sixty-six to seventy-two 
scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb 
reaches the tympanum, or not quite so far; hinder side of thighs 
uniformly granular, or with a patch of enlarged granules. Fight 
anal pores in the male. ‘Tail a little depressed, slightly longer than 
head and body; caudal scales larger than dorsals. Pale greyish 
above; a series of darker spots on each side of the vertebral line; 
two darker bands on each side from axilla to groin, separated by a 
white streak ; lower surfaces uniform white, or with small greyish 
spots on the throat. 
Total length .......... 112 millim. 
Head. nausea ddteie ae 13, 
Width of head ........ 9D 
BOGS se ng sushis sian ek erwaek 39, 
Fore limb ............ 20 255 
Hind limb............ Ble) las 
PAU se Scgeees cssee emake s 60 
Southern Brazil. 
a. Her. Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. H. v. Thering C.}. (Type.) 
b-f. 3, 9,&hgr. Rio GrandedoSul. Dr. H. v. Ihering [C.]. 
22. Liolemus multimaculatus. 
Proctotretus multimaculatus, Gray, Cat. p. 217. 
Proctotretus multimaculatus, Dum. § Bibr. iv. p. 290; Bell, Zool. 
Beagle, Rept. p. 17, pl. ix. fig. 1; Guichen. in Gay, Hist. Chile, 
Rept. p. 42. 
Liolaemus (Liodeira) multimaculatus, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 74. 
Ortholeemus beaglii, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 198, and 
U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 369, pl. xvii. figs. 15-21. 
—— multimaculatus, Girard, ll. ce. 
Nostril superior. Upper head-scales very small, convex, smooth ; 
no frontal ; interparietal much smaller than the tympanum ; a series 
of six or seven transversely enlarged supraoculars; two or three 
series of scales between the labials and the infraorbital ; temporal 
scales smooth ; anterior border of ear not denticulated. Sides of 
neck granular, strongly plicate. Dorsal scales very small, sub- 
hexagonal, scarcely imbricate, feebly keeled; lateral scales a little 
smaller, separated from one another by minute granules; ventrals 
much larger than dorsals, squarish, smooth ; seventy-two or seventy- 
four scales round the middle of the body, of which twenty-six or 
twenty-eight are ventrals. The adpressed hind limb reache:; a little 
beyond the shoulder ; hinder side of thighs with a patch of enlarged 
rhomboidal scales; the digits, which are very slender, and provided 
