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Show 482 ME. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [May 18, towards the median line ; 33 to 39 scales between the interparietal shield and the base of the tail; 8 or 9 scales, taken in the middle of the back, correspond to the length of the shielded part of the head. Lateral scales keeled, graduating into the dorsals and ventrals, directed obliquely upwards and backwards. Ventral scales small, smooth, bi- or tricuspid. 40 to 44 scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb reaches the shoulder or the ear; tibia nearly as long as the shielded part of the head ; the distance between the base of the fifth toe and the extremity of the fourth equals the distance between the end of the snout and the ear. 14 to 18 femoral pores on each side. Caudal scales as large as dorsals, strongly mucronate. Males with enlarged postanal scales. 5. 25 24 20 21 17 17 25 20 6. 39 34 38 36 35 35 33 33 7. 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8. 44 40 44 42 44 41 42 44 9. 18-18 17-18 15-15 15-15 15-15 15-15 15-14 15-14 Dark olive above, wdth a black uninterrupted nuchal collar, which may be more or less distinctly edged with yellowish or greenish ; sides of belly dark-blue, black-edged in both sexes; middle line of belly wdiite ; a patch of blue may be present on the throat, the greater part of wdiich is black or dark olive. Hab. This species is only known from the mountains of the State of Jalisco, at 4400 to 8500 feet altitude, where it was discovered by Dr. A. C. Buller. 3. SCELOPORUS MELANORHINUS. Sceloporus melanorhinus, Bocourt, Journ. de Zool. v. 1876, p. 401; Sumichrast, Bull. Soc. Zool. Erance, 1880, p. 176; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 730. Snout much flattened. Head-shields large and smooth ; frontal transversely divided and separated from the interparietal by the frontoparietals or by a small azygous shield; interparietal a little broader than long, as broad as or broader than the parietals, which are large and broader than long; a series of four large transverse supraoculars, separated from the frontal and from the supraciliaries by one series of small scales, the fourth in contact with the parietal; two canthal scales ; ear-opening nearly hidden under the large pointed scales in front of it. Dorsal scales much larger than ventrals, as broad as long, strongly keeled and mucronate, entire or feebly denticulate, Colonia Brizuela. Buller La Cumbre de los Arrastrados, Buller. Hacienda de Jalisco. Buller 1. 96 96 79 91 70 69 95 74 2. 21 22 17 19 15 15 22 17 3. 25 25 19 21 17 17 25 19 4. 21 21 16 18 15 14 21 16 |
