3. DIPLOGLOssUS. 293 
fore limb as long as the head. Tail compressed. Fulvous above, 
with narrow longitudinal reddish-grey bands. 
From snout to vent 64 millim. 
Hab. ? 
13. Diploglossus steindachneri. 
Diploglossus steindachneri, Cope, Proc. Ae. Philad. 1864, p. 179; 
Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., Rept. p. 383, pl. xxii. fig, 3; Giinth. 
Biol. C-Am., Rept. p. 34, pl. xxii. fig. A. 
chalybeeus, Cope, Proc. dc. Philad. 1866, p. 321. 
Celestus steindachneri, Cope, Proc. dc. Philad, 1868, p. 123. 
chalybeeus, Cope, l.c., and Proc. Amer. Philos, Soc, xxii. 1885, 
p. 170. 
Lateral teeth bicuspid. Head scarcely distinct from neck ; snout 
short, canthus rostralis obtuse ; ear-opening small; a large azygos 
prefrontal, broader than and in contact with the entire anterior 
border of the frontal, separated from the loreals by a shield and 
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 three shields; nasal in contact with the rostral ; 
two superposed postnasals; threo consecutive loreals; rostral a 
little narrower than the mental; the suture between the eighth and 
ninth upper labials falls below the centre of the eye; four chin- 
shields on each side, first in contact with the lower labials. Body 
elongate, rounded, a little depressed. Thirty-one or thirty-three 
scales round the middle of the body; dorsals finely striated, not 
keeled. Limbs short, not meeting when adpressed ; digits moderate, 
claws exposed. Tail a little compressed in its posterior half, the 
scales on which are keeled. Olive-brown above, some of the 
median dorsal scales with short dark brown shaft ; sides tessellated 
with small dark brown and greenish spots ; lower surfaces pale olive, 
Spec. b entirely of a dark olive-brown. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- Bod ¥. tye rad ee x4 96 
produced) ... .. 200 Fore limb ........ 24 
Heads x. eee daa 19 Hind limb........ 31 
Width ofhead .... 15 
Mexico; Guatemala. 
a, Ad. Vera Paz, Low Forest. O. Salvin, Esq. [C.]. 
b, Ad. Mexico. 
Siderolamprus enneagrammus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, 
p. 368, is perhaps nothing but the young of this species. 
14. Diploglossus sagre. 
Diploglossus sagree, Gray, Cat. p. 119. 
Diploglossus sagre, Cocteau, in R. de la Sagra, Hist. Cuba, Rept. 
p. 180, pl. xx.; Dum. & Bibr. v. p. 603; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., 
Rept. p. 878, pl. xxii. fig. 1. ; 
Celestus sagree, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad, 1868, p. 128. 
