292 ANGUIDE. 
depression, making rows of pits. Tail cylindrical. Colour above 
olivaceous, below yellowish; back and sides crossed by about 
eighteen narrow brown bars, which are three times broken and 
alternate on each side the median line. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- Bod Fe seesietets te 73 
produced) ...... 204 Fore limb ........ 25 
Head, toear...... 22 Hind limb........ 33 
Jamaica. 
11. Diploglossus microlepis. (Prare XVI. fig. 2.) 
Microlepis undulata, Gray, Cart. p. 116. 
Tiliqua microlepis, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 71. 
Microlepis undulata, Gray, Ann, N. H. ii. 1839, p. 334. 
Lateral teeth bicuspid. Head slightly distinct from neck ; canthus 
rostralis rounded ; ear-opening a little smaller than the eye-opening ; 
a large azygos subtriangular prefrontal, nearly as broad as long, 
broader than and in contact with the entire anterior border of the 
frontal, in contact with the second loreal on each side, separated 
from the rostral by two pairs of shields; frontal twice as long as 
broad ; parietal on each side separated from the frontal and supra- 
oculars by two shields; nasal in contact with the rostral; a post- 
nasal; rostral much broader than mental; the suture between the 
seventh and eighth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye; 
four chin-shields on each side, none in contact with the lower 
labials. Body rather short, depressed. Forty-six scales round the 
middle of the body; dorsals obtusely keeled, and probably finely 
striated (epidermic scales lost). Limbs moderate, overlapping when 
adpressed; digits moderate, claws exposed. Tail slender, com- 
pressed, longer than head and body. Pale brown, with transverse 
wavy darker bands. 
millim. millim 
Total length ...... 167 Fore limb ........ 21 
ead a cwinaucucy weak: 17 Hind limb. oss 27 
Width of head .... 11 EP aad) aca 2 eis doe 6s 93 
Body es sewes egies 57 
Hab. ——? 
a. Ad.? —? (Type.) 
12. Diploglossus owenii. 
Diploglossus owenii, Gray, Cat. p. 119. 
Diploglossus owenii, Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 594. 
Celestus owenii, Cope, Proc, Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 124. 
Only one pair of shields between the azygos prefrontal and the 
rostral; head-shields otherwise much as in D. occiduus and allies. 
Dorsal scales with an obtuse median keel, forming about twelve 
longitudinal series. Body much elongate; limbs very short, the 
