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Show 1894.] COLLECTION I N T H E N A T U R A L - H I S T O R Y M U S E U M . 727 ELASMODACTYLUS TUBERCULOSA. (Plate XLVII. fig. 2.) Body stout, limbs short. Head longer than broad, moderately depressed, distinct from neck; snout obtusely pointed, a little longer than the distance from the eye to the ear-opening, once and a half the diameter of the orbit; ear-opening oval-subtriangular, its greatest"diameter not quite half that of the orbit. Upper surface of head covered Avith small granules, which are intermixed with larger ones behind; nostril pierced between the rostral and four scales; rostral once and a half as broad as deep, with median cleft above; ten upper labials; nine lower labials; mental large, posterior border rounded; no chin-shields ; throat finely granulate. Body and limbs above with granules and tubercles of unequal sizes, the largest of which are subconical and concentrically striated; the vertebral line with uniform small granules ; belly covered with very small, subimbricate, cycloid, smooth scales. Digits moderately elongate, not very unequal in length, depressed at the base, dilated into an elongate ovate disk in the distal half; 20 lamellae under the median toe. Uniform dark grey-broAvn above, dirty white beneath. From snout to vent Head Width of head .... Fore limb Hind limb The only specimen, collected by the Be v. J. Pinnock in the district of the Lower Congo, is a female with the tail in an early stage of regeneration. ANOLIS RIXI. (Plate XL VIII. fig. 1.) Head once and two-thirds as long as broad, slightly longer than the tibia; forehead concave; frontal ridges strong, divergent; upper head-scales mostly keeled, very small on the snout; scales of the supraorbital semicircles strongly enlarged, strongly keeled, separated by one series of small scales; five or six large, strongly keeled supraoculars; occipital small, separated from the supraorbital semicircles by two series of rather large scales ; canthal scales three; loreal rows nine; nine upper labials to below centre of eye; ear-opening large, vertically oval. Gular appendage moderately large; gular scales keeled. Body slightly compressed; no dorso-nuchal fold. Dorsal scales large, larger than the ventrals, irregular, and rather unequal in size, feebly imbricate, feebly keeled; flanks covered with small granular scales; ventrals subrhomboidal, scarcely imbricate, keeled. The adpressed hind limb reaches the centre of the eye; digits very feebly dilated; 14 lamellae under phalanges II. and III. of the fourth toe. Tail slightly compressed, once and a half length of head and body. No enlarged postanal scales. Coppery brown above, with a dark brown lateral stripe proceeding from the eye; a pale stripe from the shoulder to the groin, edged 70 millim. 20 „ 15 „ 22 „ 27 „ |
