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out, sub -cylindrical or slightly depressed ; tail half an inch longer 

 than the body, becoming very gradually thinner, till it terminates 

 into a sharp point ; feet moderately elongated and slender : fore foot 

 nearly equal the distance between the rostrum and the ear, the 

 thumb very small, the second finger is somewhat longer than the 

 fifth, and both are shorter than the third and fourth which are sub- 

 equal, the third being slightly longer ; the claws are moderately 

 curved and very sharply pointed ; the length of hind limb equals 

 the distance between the axil and the eye ; the toes follow each 

 other in length as 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, the last two being sub-equal and 

 the second about half the length of the fourth, the claws are 

 equally sharp as on the fingers. Opening of the ear moderate, 

 rounded, with smooth edges. 



The snout is rather short and obtuse ; supra-nasals form a suture 

 behind the rostral ; anterior frontal occupies the whole breadth of 

 the snout, and forms a very narrow suture with the vertical, just 

 separating the post-frontals from each other ; vertical, long, gradu- 

 ally attenuating posteriorly ; supra- orbitals five, the last very small, 

 somewhat tumescent ; occipitals four, the anterior being united, 

 and the one following it is rather small and triangular ; upper 

 and lower rostrals are large, obtuse ; two loreals, the anterior 

 smaller than the posterior ; seven upper labials, being rather large 

 and high, six lower labials, elongated and very narrow ; first chin 

 shield single, followed by two pairs of somewhat enlarged shields, 

 having a small one between them ; pre-anals very slightly enlarged. 

 Scales smooth, transversely elongated and hexagonal, in 24-25 lon- 

 gitudinal series, and there are 60-65 scales in one row between 

 fore and hind limb. The lower eyelid is scaly, but the scales are 

 broad and more transparent in the centre than at the edges. 



Colour greenish iridescent brown above, with an almost continuous 

 series of small dark brown dots on each side of the back, beginning 

 at the nape and margined above and below by a pale line ; the centres 

 of all scales above and on the sides are paler than at the edges, 

 and form straight longitudinal lines ; below whitish with a vinaceous 

 tinge and distinctly reddish on the tail ; the sutures between the 

 labials are darker than the shields themselves. 



