26. PROCTOPORUS. 415 
Six femoral pores on each side. Caudal scales like those of the body. 
Above light brown, thickly variegated with black; sides black ; 
lower surfaces dark lead-coloured. 
millim. millim. 
Total length (tail re- From end of snout to 
produced) ...... 105 Went aacveearas 73 
HlGad. ives ged wrenre 15 Fore limb ........ 15 
Width of head .... 11 Hind limb ........ 19 
From end of snout to 
fore limb ...... 26 
Ecuador. 
a 3. Intac. Mr. Buckley [C.]. (Type.) 
4. Proctoporus meleagris. (Puarz XXII. fig. 2.) 
Head small, short; body elongate, limbs weak. Frontonasal 
-longer than broad; frontal slightly smaller; frontoparietals mode- 
rate; parietals forming an oblique suture with a large supra- 
temporal; interparictal narrow, not widened posteriorly, as long as 
parietals ; three occipitals, median very small; four supraoculars, 
anterior small; a loreal; a row of large infraorbitals; temporal 
shields large; six or seven upper and four lower labials; chin- 
shields, one anterior and three pairs, the two first pairs forming a 
suture; gulars large, quadrangular, a row in contact with the chin- 
shields very large and elongate ; eight rows of shields between the 
chin-shields and the edge of the collar; collar-shields eight, large, 
elongate. Dorsal scales elongate quadrangular, perfectly smooth, 
the transverse series interrupted on the median dorsal line ; thirty- 
four scales from occiput to sacrum inclusively ; forty-four scales 
round the middle of the body. Ventrals broader, but not longer 
than dorsals, in twelve longitudinal and twenty-one transverse 
series. Three prewanal shields, median smallest, triangular. Limbs 
with large smooth shields. Eleven or twelve femoral pores on each 
side, two of which may be termed preanal. Tail thick, tapering at 
theend; scales as on the body. Black, upper parts minutely dotted 
with whitish. 
millim. willim. 
Total length ...... 175 From end of snout 
Head .........--- 15 to vent ........ 80 
Width of head .... 10 Fore limb ........ 17 
From end of snout to Hind limb........ 22 
fore limb ...... 29 Taal: yissincnareteatece’ 95 
Ecuador. 
oud: W. Ecuador. Mr. Fraser [C.]}. 
