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ON A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF AGAMIDtE FROM SUMATRA.
BY
i\'ho.m\'ophvtf,s ii. gen. \').
Tympanum hidden. No femoral pores. Back and sides covered with small smooth scales, intermixed with larger keeled ones and with very large, multicarinate conical tubercles. No dorsal crest. A row of longer erect scales above the eye. Upper surface of the head covered with conical tubercles.
Phoxophrys tuberculata n. sp.
Head tetrahedral with a sharp canthus rostralis; above the eye the scales of the canthus become large and erect, giving rise to a sort of horn-like appendage, more than half as high as the diameter of the eye. The head is covered with tubercular scales and carinate tubercles, the inter-orbital space is deeply concave. At the back of the head a row of scales larger than the surrounding ones forms a transverse bridge between the posterior borders of the eyes, at the same time limiting the interorbital concavity from behind. Ten upper labial shields and as many lower labials. Larger multicarinate tubercles behind the eye and at
1) pointed; ctppvt;, eyebrow.
rSTotes 1\'rom the Loytlen jMiksuuuj , Vol. 111.
PHOXOPIIHYS TUBERCULATA.
tlic auglo of the mouth; throat covered with sharply cariu-
ated keels; no gular appendage.
The small imbricate scales on the sides have their free margins turned upwards. Of the larger, multicarinatetubercles on the back, three or four on each side of the median line are more especially prominent. The scales on the belly are larger than those on the sides and strongly keeled. Strongly keeled scales on the limbs, which on the upper surface are intermixed with larger tubercular multicarinate ones.
Tail much longer than the body; all its scales keeled; those on the inferior surface the largest. The hind limb laid forwards extends to the angle of the mouth, the fore limb laid backwards does not reach to the thigh.
The colour of the specimen, which has been in spirit for many years cannot be determined. It was collected at Batang Singalang in W. Sumatra by Sal. Muller and measures 4.3 cm. without the tail. ).
1) The specimen will be figured in Part 11, Vol. IV of „Midden Snmatruquot; which is now in the press, being published by Messrs. E. J. Brill at Leyden.
Notes trom 1 lie Ijeyden Museum, Vol. III.
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