SPHENOMORPHUS 



189 



shields, first two in contact ; twenty-eight rows of smooth scales 

 around body, the two dorsal median rows tranversely dilated; 

 scales under tail small ; preanals enlarged ; legs weak, not meet- 

 ing when adpressed; digits compressed; fourth toe longest 

 with twenty-two keeled, divided lamellae below ; tail thick, nearly 

 one and one-third times as long as head and body, cylindrical, 

 tapering gradually ; ear opening oval, not as large as eye ; latter 

 slightly nearer tip of snout than ear ; latter nearer foreleg than 

 tip of snout ; no auricular lobules present. 



Fig. 



Sphenomorjihus fasciatus (Gray) ; a, head, 



chin ; X 3. 



dorsal view ; b, head, lateral view ; c, 



Color in life. — Above brownish black, head spotted and barred 

 with white, body traversed by twelve narrow, milky white bars 

 not more than one scale wide and frequently broken; about 

 thirty rings of light dots around tail; belly pinkish, with much 

 brown on chin and throat, and scattered spots on abdomen ; tail 

 dark below. 



Measurements of Sphenomorphiis fasciatus (Gray). 



mm. 



Total length 183 



Snout to vent 73 



Tail, tip regenerated 110 



Snout to foreleg 25 



Axilla to groin 41 



Width of head 9 



Foreleg 17.5 



Hind leg 23.5 



Variation. — Fourteen specimens in my collection show but 

 little variation in scalation. In one or two the prefrontals barely 

 touch, but in normal specimens they form a distinct suture. 



