3. DIPLOGLOSSUS. 287 
chin-shields on each side, first two in contact with the lower labials. 
Body elongate, rounded, slightly depressed. Thirty-seven scalos 
round the middle of the body, dorsals apparently striated but keel- 
less (all the epidermic plates are lost). Limbs short, not meeting 
when adpressed ; digits short, the claws sheathed as in the preceding 
species. Tail slightly compressed. ‘Colour: sides with several 
widely-placed vertical brown bands or patches, within which one or 
two conspicuous white spots; a bluish-white stripe before the 
axilla.” 
millim. millim. 
Total length (end of Bodyic es wstawes eee 72 
tail lost) ........ 173 Fore limb........ 17 
Gad: sg: santo cheats 15 | Hind limb ...... 24 
Width of head .... 11 
Costa Rica. 
a, Ad.? Costa Rica. (Type.) 
3. Diploglossus fasciatus. 
Diploglossus fasciatus, Gray, Cat. p. 120. 
Tiliqua fasciata, Gray, Griff. A. Kix. Syn. p. 71. 
Euprepes fasciata, Reuss, Alus. Senckenb. i. p. 51, pl. iit. fig, 2. 
Diploglossus fasciatus, Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 36, and Arch, f. Nat. 
1837, p. 180; Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., Rept. p. 389, pl. xxii. 
fig. 5. 
: houttuynii, (Coct.) Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 597. 
Lateral teeth with obtuse crowns. Head much depresed; snout 
truncate ; canthus rostralis obtuse ; ear-opening smaller than the 
eye-opening; three prefrontals; azygos a little larger, as broad as 
long or broader than long, separated from the frontal or in contact 
on a very small point, separated from the loreal by one shield and 
‘from the rostral by two pairs; frontal not once and a half as long 
as broad; parietal on each side separated from the frontal and 
supraoculars by two shields; nasal usually separated from the 
rostral; one or two postnasals; rostral much broader than the 
mental; the suture between the seventh and eighth, or eighth and 
ninth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye; four chin- 
shields on each side, two anterior in contact with the lower labials. 
Body subtetragonal, slightly depressed. Forty to forty-four scales 
round the middle of the body; dorsals and laterals not keeled, 
finely striated. The limbs fail to meet when adpressed; digits 
rather short, the claws sheathed as in the two preceding species. 
Tail cylindrical, a little longer than head and body. Upper surfaces 
with alternating pale greenish and brown darker-edged bands of 
equal width, the brown bands uniting on the abdomen, which is of 
the latter colour; the first brown band crosses the nostrils, the 
second the eyes, the third the ears; seven others between the latter 
and the tail, which is regularly annulate ; limbs brown. 
