EMOIA 229 



Head rather distinct from neck, snout pointed, somewhat de- 

 pressed; rostral comparatively small; supranasals present, nar- 

 row, elongate, bordering nostril above (one on right side broken) ; 

 frontonasal broader than long, forming equal sutures with fron- 

 tal and rostral ; prefrontals rather small, widely separated ; fron- 

 tal much longer than its distance to end of snout, not wider than 

 supraocular region, longer than, or as long as, the large fronto- 

 parietal, in contact with two supraoculars ; frontoparietal single, 

 fused with interparietal into a single large shield; parietals 

 small, forming a suture, bordered by a pair of nuchals and a 

 pair of temporals ; nasal divided into an anterior and a posterior 

 part which, with the supranasal, surround nostril ; two f renals, 

 first high and narrow, second low, broad, and very much larger 

 than first; four supraoculars, first two bordering the frontal, 



Fig. 40. Emoia cyanurum (Lesson) ; a, head, dorsal view; h, head, lateral view; c, chin; 



X 3. 



last three the frontoparietal, second much the largest; eight 

 superciliaries ; three preoculars; eight upper labials (seven on 

 left side), sixth much broadened, bordering orbit below; four 

 enlarged temporals; five or six lower labials; thirty scale rows 

 around body, smooth or very dimly keeled laterally; ventrals a 

 little larger than dorsals; preanals only slightly enlarged; ear 

 opening fairly large, about the size of disk in eyelid, with small 

 lobules anteriorly; eye moderate, equidistant from ear and end 

 of snout ; ear much nearer foreleg than end of snout ; legs stout, 

 the hind limb reaching axilla when adpressed; fourth toe very 

 long, with forty lamellae below. 



Color in life. — Above almost a uniform gray-olive, below 

 lighter. Younger specimens are dark olive brown with three 

 yellow stripes down back; tail bright bluish; chin, throat, and 

 belly dirty yellowish white; lamellae dark. 



