36. RHAOODACITLirS. 36. LUPEEOSAUEUS. 181 



' ^*^j-^°i.°?' ^^"^^''' cylindrical, covered with smaU juxtaposed scales, 

 Its distal extremity with a rounded flap of skin, placed horizontaUy. 

 leUowisli or reddish-brown, lighter beneath. 



Total length (tail reproduced, 



rudimentary) 109 millim. 



Head 33 



Width of head 24 



Body 68 



Fore limb 36 



Find limb 46 



New Caledonia. 



36. LUPEROSAURUS. 



Luperosaurus, Ch-ay, Cat. p. 163. 



Digits strongly dilated, half-webbed, with undivided, angularly 

 curved lamellae below; all but the thumb and inner toe with a 

 very short compressed distal phalanx with retractile claw. Limbs 

 bordered with cutaneous lobes. Upper and lower surfaces covered 

 with juxtaposed granular scales. Pupil vertical. Males with prse- 

 anal pores. 



PhUippine Islands. 



1. Luperosaurus cumiugii. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) 

 Luperosaurus cumingii, Chray, I. c. 



Head regularly oviform ; snout longer than the distance from the 

 eye to the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of the 

 orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening very small, subcircular. Body 

 and limbs moderate ; digits short, not very unequal, half-webbed ; 

 the Hmbs bordered on each side by a cutaneous fringe, that extend- 

 ing from the vent to the tarsus being much developed ; an angular 

 lobe of skin closes the vent in the female. Tail shorter than the 

 body, convex superiorly, flat inferiorly, probably prehensile. Head, 

 back, and Umbs covered with extremely minute granules ; rostral 

 large, square ; nostril pierced between the latter, the first labial, 

 and three or four small nasals ; sixteen upper and fourteen or 

 fifteen lower labials ; rostral trapezoid, not larger than the nearest 

 labials ; no chin-shields ; throat minutely granulate ; belly covered 

 with small flat juxtaposed granules. Tail indistinctly annulate, 

 covered with small flat granules, rather larger inferiorly, the lateral 

 keel with a slight fringe formed by projecting elongate scales. 

 Purplish-brown above, marbled with darker ; lower surfaces whitish, 

 belly with narrow transverse brown lines. 



Total length 129 millim. 



Head 20 



Width of head 17 „ 



