274 



5. APHANIOTIS. 



Aphaniotis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 385. 



Body compressed, limbs very long and slender. Fifth toe much 

 longer than first. All the scales keeled; the dorsals heterogeneous. 

 A dorsal crest. Probably a gular pouch in the male. ISTo gular 

 fold. Ear concealed. No prseanal or femoral pores. 



Malayan district. 



1. Aphaniotis fnsca. 



Otocryptis (Aphaniotis) fusea, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1864, p. 385. 



Snout pointed, a little longer than the diameter of the orbit, with 

 sharp canthus rostratis ; upper head-scales sharply keeled, largest 

 on the supraorbital region ; seven or eight upper and eight lower 

 labials. The enlarged dorsal scales forming longitudinal series ; 

 lateral scales small and feebly keeled, intermixed with scattered 

 enlarged ones ; ventral scales largest. Limbs above with large equal 

 keeled scales ; the hind limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the 

 tip of the snout, the heel reaches the posterior border of the head ; 

 iifth toe as long as third. Tail roundish, slender, twice as long as 

 head and body, covered with equal strongly keeled scales. Brown 

 above, with rather indistinct darker transverse bars ; throat brown, 

 the rest of the lower surface whitish. 



Total length 159 miUim. 



Head 15 



Width of body 9 



Body 39 



Pore limb 31 



Hind limb 52 



Tan 105 



Malacca ; Mas ; Borneo. 



a. 5. Nias. Hr. Sandemann [0.]. 



Peters!s description of A. fusca being rather vague, I am not 

 quite satisfied as to the correctness of my identification. At any 

 rate, Peters's lizard must be very closely allied. 



6. LOPHOCALOTES. 



Lophocalotes, Gunth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 593. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with large sub- 

 equal keeled scales. A dorsal crest. No gular sac ; a transverse 

 gular fold. Digits not keeled inferiorly. No femoral or prseanal 

 pores. 



East-Indian archipelago. 



