GERRHOSAURUS FLAYIGULARIS. 
manner as the fore legs; feet and toes yellowish brown. Under parts and 
inner surface of extremities livid cream-yellow, and the sides of the belly are 
marked with an irregular row of pale purplish brown spots ; upper and 
under lips yellow, dotted with umber brown ; chin and throat pale yellow. 
Eyes reddish brown. 
hoRM, &c. — Figure fusiform and the tail tapered to a fine point. Head 
small and tapered anteriorly, the nose obtusely pointed. Body somewhat 
quadrangular, the angles rounded and the back and sides slightly convex. 
Tail towards base quadrangular, towards point cylindrical. Frontal plate 
five sided, anteriorly triangular ; vertibral plates four, the two middle ones 
the largest and all externally edged with a row of oblong narrow plates 
which form the upper margin of the orbit. Fronto-nasal plate large and 
diamond-shaped ; the inner and hinder parts of the fronto-parietal and the 
anterior and inner parts of the parietal plates separated from each other by 
the intervention of a small diamond-shaped occipital plate. Temporal plates 
small, many-sided, and genei’ally seven in number, — one in the centre, and 
six surrounding it. Labial scales six on upper jaw, and four on ower ; the 
fourth scale of the upper the longest, and situated directly below the 
eye. BJccilus audit ovius cxtcvnus narrow, vertical and in front partly con- 
cealed by a triangular or somewhat semicircular scale, which extends 
outwards and backwards from the hinder edge of temple. Lateral duplica- 
ture of skin moderately developed. Scales of body and tail quadrangular 
and arranged in transverse rows, each scale with a central carina. Mental 
plates four, the two hinder ones the largest ; the throat and breast covered 
with somewhat six-sided scales, in shape like two triangles joined at their 
bases. These scales are arranged in longitudinal rows, are slightly imbricate 
and larger on the breast than the throat. Plates of the belly disposed in 
transverse rows ten in each, of a quadragular form and perfectly" smooth. 
Preanal plates three in a single row, the middle one of a diamond-shape 
excepting that anteriorly it is truncate. Scales covering the under surface 
of tail at base quadrangular and smooth, towards tip triangular with their 
apex rounded. The fore legs are coated with smooth subovate and imbri- 
cated scales ; the hinder ones anteriorly and inferiorly with large sompwhat 
six-sided scales ; posteriorly with small triangular and carinated scales. 
Femoral pores fifteen or sixteen, and protrude but very little beyond the 
scales lying anterior to them. Soles of the feet coated with small subgra* 
nular scales. 
