288 ANGUIDE. 
millim. millim. 
Total length ...... 355 Fore limb........ 35 
Head coascce raat 31 Hind limb........ 47 
Width of head .... 24 ALL: est sce Ohne ... 200 
BOR Ye eet arise 124 
Brazil. 
a. Ad. Tijuco River. R. Bennett, Esq. [P.]. 
6. Her. Bahia. Dr. O. Wucherer ict 
ec. Her. Pernambuco. J. P. Smith, Esq. | P.]. 
d. Yg. Brazil. Lady Harvey [P.]. 
e. Yg. Brazil. 
4. Diploglossus millepunctatus. 
Diploglossus millepunctatus, O'Shaughn. Ann. §& Mag. N. H. (4) 
xiii. 1874, p.301; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 388, pl. xxii. a. 
fig. 5. 
Lateral teeth with obtuse crowns. Head rather strongly de- 
pressed; snout narrow, cheeks swollen; canthus rostralis rounded ; 
ear-opening smaller than the eye-opening ; three prefrontals, azygos 
largest, longer than broad, touching the frontal on a very small 
point, separated from the rostral by two pairs of shields; frontal 
once and a half as long as broad ; parietal on each side separated 
from the frontal and supraoculars by two shields ; nasal in contact 
with the rostral; a postnasal and three consecutive loreals; rostral 
broader than the mental; the suture between the seventh and 
eighth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye; four chin- 
shields on each side, two anterior in contact with the lower labials. 
Body subquadrangular. Fifty-four scales round the middle of the 
body ; dorsals smooth or very feebly striated, keelless ; laterals 
much smaller than dorsals and ventrals. Limbs moderate, over- 
lapping when adpressed ; claws partly retractile into a sheath 
similar to that of the preceding species. Tail compressed. Upper 
parts brown, closely dotted with whitish; belly brown, each scale 
edged with whitish. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (end of BOG y soe eiy a eae 185 
tail lost)........ 385 Fore limb........ 65 
Plead. es teting ba eae 50 Hindlimb ...... 84 
Width of head .... 87 
Hab. -——? 
a. Ad. “ North-west coast of Lieut. Wood [P.]. 
America.” (Type.) 
5. Diploglossus rugosus. 
Celestus rugosus, Cope, Proc. Am, Phil. Soc, xviii. 1879, p. 272. 
Head flat and rather elongate, its scuta generally similar to those 
of D. occiduvs ; interparietal as large as parietals; five large chin- 
