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Show 166 DR. A. GUNTHER ON REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS [Feb. 4, rated from tbe rostral by the frontals. H. neevia is not confined to New Guinea; we have one specimen from Dillwyn's Bornean collection ; it is not well preserved. HINULIA NIGBOLABRIS. (Plate XVII. fig. A.) Closely allied to H. neevia and H. variegata, but distinguished from the former by considerably longer toes, and from the latter by having the vertical shield separated from the rostral by the frontals. The middle of the body is surrounded by forty-six longitudinal series of scales. Upper labials five or six. Ear-opening large, without denticulation. The fore leg, when stretched forward, extends to, or even slightly beyond, the end of the snout, the hind leg beyond the axil. Upper parts chestnut-brown, with irregular transverse black spots; sides and legs variegated with black and brown. Tail nearly entirely black. A black band from the eye, above the tympanum, extends to the side of the neck, where it is lost in the brown coloration of the sides. The meeting edges of the jaws black. inches, lines. Distance of the snout from the eye 0 3 „ „ „ tympanum .... 0 9 „ » » axil 1 3 „ „ „ vent 3 8 Length of the fore leg 1 3j „ third and fourth fore toes 0 4 hind leg 2 0 „ third hind toe 0 6 fourth hind toe 0 8# 3 Total length 9 6 One specimen, obtained by Dr. Meyer in Northern Celebes. COPHOSCINCUS INFRALINEOLATUS. Scales smooth ; supranasal shields none ; lower eyelid with a transparent disk; ear-opening hidden. Snout depressed, not produced. Vertical bell-shaped, in contact with the praefrontal. Scales in twenty-two longitudinal series, ot which the two middle on the back are very broad, twice as broad as the adjoining series. There are forty-two scales in a longitudinal series between the axil of the fore leg and the vent. Two large praeanal scales. Black above, with three golden-yellow longitudinal bands, as broad as the black ground-colour between. The middle band commences on the end of the snout, and is continued on the tail; the lateral band commences on the superciliary edge, and runs along the side of the back to the root of the tail, where it is lost. The entire lower side with fine brown longitudinal lines running along the meeting edges of the rows of scales. Limbs finely reticulated, and the toes annulated, with black. A single specimen was obtained by Dr. Meyer on Sangi Island ; it has lost the greater portion of its tail. |