DASYPELTIS INORNATUS.— Smith. 
Reptilia. — Plate 73. 
D. superne flavo-brunneus, infra subflavus ; dorsi squamis punctis duabus subalbidis versus apicem 
variegatis; scutis temporalibus quatuor quinqueve lsevibus; squamis occipitalibus brevibus sub- 
carinatis ; corporis squamis in ordinibus 24 dispositis. 
Longitddo 6 nasi apico ad basin caudse 24 unc. ; caudee 5 unc. 
Colour.— The upper surface of the head, the back, and the sides inter- 
mediate between orange-coloured brown and yellowish brown, each scale of 
the back marked with two minute pale white spots near the apex, one on 
each side of the keel ; the under parts a tint between sienna and straw-yellow. 
Eyes probably bluish green. 
Form, &c. Head small and subquadrangular, the sides nearly perpen- 
diculai, the nose broad and anteriorly arched, the hind-head scarcely, if at 
all, wider than the neck. Body long, rather slender, and throughout nearly 
of equal thickness, the back subcarinated, the belly full and convex. Tail 
short, rather thick at its base, and from thence tapers suddenly to the apex, 
\i hich is aculeated. The head superiorly, flat or very slightly convex ; rostral 
plate broad and subtriangular ; its apex, which lies between the naso-rostral 
plates, obtuse and arched ; naso-rostral and fronto-uasal plates quadrangular, 
the latter laigest, and the outer side of each irregular or waved; frontal 
plate five-sided, anteriorly arched, the two hinder sides, which unite behind 
at an acute angle, are shorter than the other sides ; occipital plates subovate, 
anterioily angular, the inner side of each long and straight, the outer side 
waved and posteriorly inclined inwards, the hinder side truncated ; palpebral 
plates oblong, quadrangular, and broadest behind ; nasal plates rather large, 
somewhat five-sided, anteriorly truncated, posteriorly pointed ; preocular 
plate single, five-sided ; post-ocular plates generally three, occasionally only 
