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Show 82 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON ADDITIONS TO THE [Feb. 18, LIOCEPHALUS BOLIVIANUS. (Plate IX.) Upper head-scales small, strongly keeled ; nostril lateral, below die canthus rostralis ; nasal separated from the rostral by one scale ; no large supraoculars. Side of neck not plicate, covered wtih pointed, imbricate, keeled scales. A low dorsal crest. Dorsal scales large, strongly keeled, feebly mucronate, forming slightly oblique longitudinal lines ; lateral scales smaller ; ventrals a little larger than dorsals, very stronglv keeled ; gulars a little smaller than dorsals ; 38 scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb reaches the end of the snout. Tail very slightly compressed, not crested. Pale bronzy brown above,with angular dark brown markings pointing backward; a brown oblique band from below the eye to the lip; shoulder and upper surface of arm blackish brown, with a white anterior border; lower parts pale olive, with white spots. millim. millim. Total length 245 Fore limb 43 Head 21 Hind limb 75 Width of head 13 Tail 165 Body 59 A single female specimen from Bolivia in Dr. J. G. Fischer's collection. CHAM^ESAURA DIDACTYLA. (Plate XI. fig. 1.) Both pairs of limbs present, with two minute clawed digits, inner shortest. Head-shields striated ; nasals forming a suture, separating the rostral from the frontonasal; latter longer than broad, forming a suture with the frontal, separating the praefrontals; frontal heptagonal; four subequal parietals; an elongate interparietal; no occipital; the posterior parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal; three supraoculars, anterior largest; three supra-ciliaries, anterior largest; nasal large, pierced in its posterior portion ; a single loreal ; subocular between the third and fourth labials. Scales on the body in 26 longitudinal and 39 transverse series. Three femoral pores. Bronzy brown above, with a lighter vertical line; golden inferiorly. millim. millim. Total length 530 Hind limb 8 Head 15 Tail 420 Fore limb 5 A single specimen from South Africa. This new species lessens the gap between C. cenea and C. anguina. ECHINOSAURA, g. n. (Teiidorum). Tongue moderately elongate, arrow-headed. Lateral teeth compressed, bi- or tricuspid. Head with large shields anteriorly, granular posteriorly ; frontonosal separating the nasals ; nostril pierced in the |
