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lateral scales very small; ventrals a little larger than dorsals, 
smooth, rounded, broader than long; seventy-one to seventy-nine 
scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb reaches 
the ear or not quite so far. Tail strongly compressed, crested like the 
back. Olive-brown above, with small lighter spots, with or without 
transverse dark brown spots on the back and tail; hinder side of 
thighs frequently with a white, dark-edged longitudinal band ; lower 
surfaces pale olive, the male’s throat darker ; transverse curved series 
of small whitish dark-edged round spots from side to side across the 
belly. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 215 Fore limb ........ 34 
Head case es 20 Hind limb........ 68 
Width of head .... 17 Pail « cveeaas 2 ene 110 
BODY. ie Face Saeieowatian 85 
San Domingo. 
a-c. & & her. S. Domingo. — Parker, Esq. [P.] 
2. Liocephalus macropus. 
Liocephalus macropus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 184, and 1868, 
p. 122. 
Much like Z. vittatus, but differs in the greater breadth and 
smoothness of the head-shields, and in the granular nature of the 
scales for some distance posterior to the ear-opening. Hind limb 
quite or nearly reaching end of snout. Above olive, often with a 
metallic lustre; sometimes brownish; a transverse interscapular 
and crural pale-bordered spot, which is often indistinct ; a blackish 
band extends from the orbit to the groin, mostly varied with white 
near the axilla, obsolete posteriorly ; beneath yellowish or greenish, 
the gular region sometimes streaked with black. 
From snout to vent 70 millim. ; tail 110 millim. 
Eastern Cuba. 
3. Liocephalus vittatus. 
Leiocephalus schreibersii, (non Gravh.) Gray, Cat. p. 218. 
Holotropis vittatus, Hallow. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1856, p. 161. 
Liocephalus vittatus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 184, and 1868, 
. 122. 
i raviceps, Cope, U. cc. pp. 183, 122. ; 
Leiocephalus (Holotropis) vittatus, Reinh. & Liith. Vidensk. Meddel, 
1862, p. 271. 
Upper head-scales large, striated; nasal in contact with the 
rostral ; supraorbitals in contact ; supraoculars six, band-like, sepa- 
rated from the supraorbitals by a series of small scales; parietals 
two pairs on one row, subequal, or outer pair a little larger. Sides 
of neck strongly plicate, covered with pointed, cut keeled 
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