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the eye and the tip of the snout; tympanum modei'ate. A slight transverse gular 
fold. Dorsal scales large, uniform, feebly keeled, the keels directed obliquely 
towards the middle of the back ; gular scales smooth ; ventral scales feebly 
keeled, a little larger than those on the middle of the back ; lateral scales 
smallest, latero-ventral largest. Limbs and digits rather long, the adpressed 
hind-limb reaches the tympanum in the male and the shoulder in the female. 
No pores in our specimens. Coloicr .—Brown above, with darker and lighter 
spots; a broad bluish vertebral band, divided on the tail by a narrow line of 
ground colour; a narrow white band on each side from behind the eye to the base 
of the tail, and sometimes a broader one from axilla to groin. Under-surfaces 
whitish, with two broad, dark edged, bright yellow bands, united on the chest, and 
again in front of the hind limbs; a band of the same colour along the front of the 
hind-lindj from its base to the knee. Tail with a series of broad dark spots or 
annuli. 
Dimensions. 
Male. Female. 
Total length ... 
... 215 
in in. 
206 mm. 
Head 
14 
16 „ 
Width of head 
9 
9-5 „ 
Body 
... 42 
j? 
45 „ 
Fore-limb 
24 
24 „ 
Hind-limb 
38 
5) 
39 „ 
Tail 
... 159 
145 „ 
Habits .—Food chiefly grasshoppers. 
Mode of reproduction .—Ova in two series, three and four respectively. The 
larger 14 mm. by 8 mm., the smaller 4 mm. by 4 mm. 
Locality .—Charlotte Waters. 
Named after Charles Winnecke, Esq., the leader of the Horn Expedition. 
Physignathus, Cuvier. 
(10) Physignathus longirostris, Blgr. (Plate X., Figs. 2, 2a). 
Several specimens. In some the middle of the back and the temporal and 
loreal regions are of a rich plum colour, a black patch enclosing a white spot 
immediately behind the tympanum ; a red streak on the loreal region. 
