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Show .] COLLECTION IN THE NATURAL-HISTORY MUSEUM. 735 ABLEPHARUS CARSONII. (Plate XLIX. fig. 4.) Snout very short, obtuse. Eye entirely surrounded by a circle of granules. _ Bostral forming an extensive suture with the frontonasal, which is in contact Avith the frontal; no supranasal; frontal small, hardly one third the size of the single shield formed through fusion of the frontoparietals and interparietal; three supraoculars, first largest and in contact with the frontal; five or six supraciliaries ; a pair of nuchals ; four upper labials anterior to the sub-ocular. Ear-opening roundish, as large as the pupil. 26 scales round the middle of the body, laterals a little smaller than dorsals or ventrals. Praeanals scarcely enlarged. Limbs pentadactyle, narrowly separated when adpressed. Bronzy broAvn above, greenish Avhite beneath; a black vertebral line; a black line edged above with yellow, on each side, from the end of the snout to the base of the tail. millim. millim. Total length 80 Fore limb 8 Head 6 Hind limb 10 Width of head.... 4-5 Tail 46 Body 28 A single specimen from Fwambo, British Central Africa. Collected by Mr. A. Carson. TROPIDOPHORUS MOCQUARDII. This species, specimens of which have been referred to T. beccarii by Dr. Mocquard in his paper on the reptiles of Kina Baloo (N. Arch. Mus. [3] ii. 1890, p. 135), agrees Avith T. beccarii in its smooth scales, with T. brookii in its smaller postmental, behind which two pairs of shields are in contact, and in its larger head, which is more swollen at the temples ; it differs from both in the greater number of scales round the body, Adz. 34. The coloration is the same as in T. brookii. From snout to vent 95 millim. Two specimens, male and female, from Kina Baloo, X. Borneo, received from Mr. A. Everett. The female contains four fully developed young, measuring 30 millim. from snout to vent. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XLVII. Fig. 1. OUdura nivaria, Blgr., p. 726. 1 a. „ „ Lower surface of foot, X 2. 2. Elasmodactylus tuberculosus, Blgr., p. 727. 2 a. „ „ Lower surface of foot, X 2. 3. Lrocentrum guentheri, Blgr., p. 729. |
