428 TEIIDE. 
Gymnophthalmus nitidus, Reink. § Liitk. Vidensk, Meddel. 1862, 
p. 226; Bocourt, 1. c. p. 470. 
Body and limbs moderately elongate in the male, the body longer 
and the limbs weaker in the female; head depressed. Frontonasal 
large, broader than long, seven- -sided ; prefrontals forming a short 
suture ; frontal very small, pentagonal ; parietals rather small; 
interparietal large, subpentagonal, longer than parietals; a very 
large supraciliary, forming an oblique suture with the unique supra- 
ocular which forms a suture anteriorly with the smaller prefrontal ; 
a loreal; seven or eight upper and six or seven lower labials ; chin- 
shields, one anterior and two pairs forming a suture. Scales on the 
body perfectly smooth ; fifteen round the body, and thirty-four ( 3) 
to thirty-eight (2) from occiput to base of tail. Four femoral 
pores on each side, in males. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered 
with rounded scales which, except at the base, are feebly keeled ; 
the portion of the tail which has been reproduced is no longer 
covered with rounded scales, but with overlapping whorls of lanceo- 
late scales, exactly similar to those of Heterodactylus and allies. Dark 
olive above ; a yellowish, black-edged band on each side, beginning 
from the tip of the snout; another, narrow, parallel line along the 
upper lip, through the ear-opening, and over the fore limb, to groin ; 
tail pinkish posteriorly ; throat and belly grey, black-dotted. 
matfliin, yillim 
Total length (tail injured) ........ 83 85 
Head acuacesw sea gcd ioedaaes 65 7 
Width of head .......... 000 ue 4 5 
From end of snout to fore limb.... 11 11:5 
From end of snout to vent........ 31 41 
Fore amb ac 6 sa ve et bes wee es 7 7 
Hind MD nh os ooo 5 as a eon a 12 12 
Brazil; West Indies. 
a-b, c-d. dQ. —?P 
2. Gymnophthalmus sumichrasti. 
Hpeyielse sumichrasti, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) viii. 1876, 
115. 
P- 
Gymnophthalmus sumichrasti, Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 471, 
pl. xx. H. fig. 2 
In most respects similar to the preceding; the difference of pro- 
portions between the sexes still more marked. Scales perfectly 
smooth, feebly keeled on the posterior part of the tail; thirteen 
scales round the body, and thirty-one (¢ ) or thirty-seven (3) from 
occiput to base of tail. Male with three or four femoral pores on 
each side. Yellowish or olive-brown above, with metallic gloss ; 
sides much darker, the two colours sharply defined, and limited by 
