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parietals fused in a single scale, a little broader than long ; inter- 

 parietal triangular, a little wider than frontal but shorter; 

 parietals forming a suture behind interparietal; four pairs of 

 nuchals; nasal pierced medially by nostril, touching a single 

 labial; two frenals, both higher than wide; four supraoculars, 

 last longest, second widest; eight superciliaries ; several much- 

 enlarged temporals; seven upper labials, fifth below center of 

 eye; five or six lower labials; mental larger than rostral; ear 

 opening obliquely oval, moderately large ; eye nearer tip of snout 

 than ear opening ; limbs small, barely touching when adpressed ; 

 digits not or but slightly compressed; twenty lamellse under 



Fig. 36. Siaphos kempi Taylor, from the type ; a, head, dorsal view ; b, head, lateral view ; 



c, chin ; X 4. 



fourth toe; two enlarged preanals; median row of scales under 

 tail slightly widened; twenty-two rows around body; scales 

 smooth, the median dorsal rows widest. 



Color in life. — Above silvery olive to brov^ni, somewhat lighter 

 on tail ; laterally a broad dark stripe from eye to near end of tail, 

 becoming a somewhat lighter color on tail, bordered above and 

 below with a narrow, greenish silver line; head uniform dark 

 brov^n; belly dirty greenish white with a few small specks of 

 dark color under chin; under part of tail creamy white; limbs 

 mottled brown and yellowish. 



Measurements of Siaphos kempi Taylor. 



Total length 



Tail 



Axilla to groin 



Snout to vent 



Snout to foreleg 



Foreleg 



Hind leg 



mm. 



93 

 53 

 21 

 40 

 14.5 



9 

 14 



