296 ANGUIDZE. 
A large nine-sided preefrontal between the frontal and the rostral ; 
posterior border of latter shield chevron-shaped ; parietals small, 
longer than broad, separated from the frontal by the frontoparietals ; 
seven upper labials. Scales in forty-four longitudinal rows, the 
dorsals striated. Tail very elongate. Colour above light brown, 
with numerous small dark brown spots on the dorsal region ; sides 
dark brown, darker anteriorly, where a bandlike arrangement is 
assumed as far as the orbit; from the ear-opening posteriorly, this 
is crossed by numerous blackish-brown vertical bars, with irregular 
light posterior borders ; chin whitish, abdomen yellowish. 
millim. : nillim. 
From snout to vent. 94 Fore limb ........ 13 
Head, to ear...... 17 Hind limb........ 19 
Near Jeremie, S. Domingo. 
6. OPHIODES. 
Ophiodes, Wagler, Isis, 1828, p. 740, and Syst. Amph. p. 159; Dum. 
§ Bibr. v. p. 788; Gray, Cat. Liz. pp. 99, 120; Bocourt, Miss. Se. 
Mex., Rept. p. 457. 
Pygodactylus (non Merr.), Wagl. Ul. cc. pp. 741 & 160. 
No lateral fold. Scales roundish-rhomboidal, arranged quincun- 
cially on the back, forming vertical series on the sides. No fore 
limbs; styliform rudiments of hind limbs. Teeth conical. Palate 
toothless. 
South America. 
1. Ophiodes striatus. 
Ophiodes striatus, part., Gray, Cat. p. 99. 
Pygopus striatus, Spiv, Spec. Nov. Lae. Bras. p. 25, pl. xxviit. fig. 1. 
cariococca, Spir, le p. 26, fig. 2. 
Ophiodes striatus, Wagl. Ists, 1828, p. 740; Dum. § Bibr. v. p. 789 ; 
Gravenh. Nova Acta Ac. Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, 1. p. 879, pl. xliv.; 
Girard, U.S. Explor, Exped., Herp. p. 225; Cope, Proc. de. 
Philad. 1862, p. 350; Bocourt, Miss. Se. Mex., Rept. p. 458 
pl. xxii. G. fig. 4. : 
Pygodactylus gronovii (non Daud.), Wagl. t. ¢. p. 741. 
A large azygos prefrontal (abnormally divided), separated from 
the rostral by two pairs of shields ; frontal large, much longer than 
broad; interparietal as broad as, or slightly broader than the 
parictals, longer than the occipital; nasal in contact with the 
rostral; three or four enlarged shields on each side behind the 
postmental, only the first or the first two in contact with the lower 
labials. Ear-opening almost or quite hidden. Scales smooth, the 
dorsals finely striated ; twenty-five or twenty-seven round the 
middle of the body. Rudimentary hind limbs styliform. Tail 
about once and a half the length of the body. Brownish or olive- 
grey above, with a variable, but even, number of dark brown longi- 
