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EUBLEPHAEID^. 



behind the rostral ; eight upper and as many lower labials to below 

 the centre of the eye ; mental large, subtrapezoid, slightly broader 

 than long, longer than the adjacent labials. Abdominal scales 

 strongly imbricate. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with uniform, 

 small, imbricate scales, which are slightly enlarged interiorly. Pale 

 brown above, with round darker spots and sis light wavy cross bands 

 on the neck and back ; the two anterior bands on the nape horseshoe- 

 shaped, reaching to below the eye and to below the ear respectively ; 

 tail with alternate dark and light annuli of equal width ; lips with 

 brown and white spots ; lower surfaces white, throat spotted with 

 brown. 



Total length 107 millim. 



Head 12 



Width of head 8 



Body 39 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 22 



TaH 56 



Texas and California. 



5. Eublepharis fasciatus. 



Closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs in the larger 

 and more elongate head, the length of the snout exceeding the 

 distance between the orbit and the ear-opening. Six labials to 

 below the centre of the eye. Brown above, with five or six black- 

 edged, whitish, transverse bands, the anterior on the nape horseshoe- 

 shaped, extending to the eye ; tail with alternate, broader dark, and 

 narrower light annuli ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 113 millim. 



Head 16 



Width of head 9 



Body 40 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 25 



Tail 57 



Mexico. 



a. ?. 



Ventanas. 



Hr. A. Forrer [C], 



3. COLEONYX. 



Coleonyx, Oray, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. xvi. 1846, p. 162 ; Bocourt, 



Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 49. 

 Brachydactylus, Peters, Mon. Berk Ac. 1863, p. 41. 



Digits with a row of lamellse interiorly ; claws concealed into very 

 large compressed sheaths. 

 Central America. 



