EKE MI AS LATICEPS.— Smith. 
Reptilia.— Plate XLYI. Fig. 1. 
E. superne flavo-brunnea, lineis quinque, longitudinalibus, subflavis, variegatis, linea media antice bifur- 
cata; scutis nasalibus disjunctis; scutis ventralibus in ordine transverse sexdeeim ; poris femoralibus 
tredecim. 
Lonsitudo e nasi apice ad anum 2 vmc. ; cauda; 3 unc. 3 lin. 
Colour.— The upper and lateral surfaces of the head intermediate between 
reddish orange and yellowish brown. The ground colour of the back, the sides 
of the body, and the outer surface of the extremities intermediate between 
brownish red and chestnut-brown, and variegated with light yellowish brown, 
either as longitudinal stripes or small spots. The stripes, when they exist, 
are three distinct, and two indistinct, the latter low on the sides, and extend- 
ing between the fore and hinder legs, the others are, one along the centre of 
the back, and one towards the middle of each side. These three commence 
close to the hindhead, and terminate a little beyond the origin of the tail ; the 
middle stripe is forked towards its anterior extremity, and between its limbs 
there exists a short stripe of the colour of the more lengthened ones. The 
bands of spots exist only on the body towards the head, and are one between 
every two of the longitudinal stripes, the spots are very small, and not dis- 
posed in any regular order. The outer surface of each extremity is also 
variegated with a band of spots of a similar character. The belly, the 
inner surface of the extremities, and the under surfaces of the head and 
the tail, yellowish white ; the upper surface of the tail and the feet yellowish 
brown. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather slender ; tail moderately long and very slender 
at the point. Head rather depressed, broad posteriorly, narrow and tapered 
in front of the eyes; the snout rather short ; supra orbital space prominent 
and convex ; sides of the head anteriorly nearly vertical, posteriorly slightly 
convex ; ear-opening narrow and vertically subovate ; membrana tympani close 
to orifice ; nasal plates separated by the intervention of the anterior portion 
of the naso-rostral plate, the latter rather large, nearly pointed anteriorly, 
broad and arched posteriorly ; fronto-nasal separated from each other by a 
small quadrangular plate ; frontal plate long and broadest anteriorly, where 
it is of a triangular shape; fronto-parietals contiguous ; inter-parietal large 
and somewhat rhomboidal; occipital narrow, anteriorly broad, posteriorly 
arched ; palpebral plates rather small and margined anteriorly, posteriorly, 
and externally with small granular scales. Plates of upper lip, in front of 
large suborbital plate five, behind it four ; plates of lower lip seven ; freno- 
nasal plate small, quadrangular, rather longer than deep ; freno-ocular plate 
large and subtriangular ; anteocular plates two, the anteriormost much the 
