TELE S COPUS SEMIMNULATUS ■
Reptilia, la ’’ 72
TELESCOPUS * SEMIANNULATUS.— Sunderwall.
Reptilia.—Plate LXXII.
T. superne brunneo-flavus fasciis subnigris variegatus, infra pailide flavUs; corporis squamis ordinibns
longitudinalibus 19 dispositis.
Longitudo h naai apice ad anum 25 unc.; caudee unc.
Colour.—The upper parts intermediate between buff-orange and flesh-
red, the back variegated with about thirty-four, and the tail with about ten
transverse liver-brown bands, some very short, others, particularly on the
back, long, and generally tapered towards each extremity. The colour of
the under parts is intermediate between sienna-yellow and flesh-red. The
upper surface of the head has a slightly brown tint. In living specimens
the light colour of the back and sides is, probably, bright red.
F orm, &c.—Head, viewed from above, subovate; hind-head rather wider
than the neck. Body rather slender, towards the head cylindrical, elsewhere
slightly compressed, above subcarinated, under surface rather broad, and
slightly convex. Tail tapers rather suddenly, and terminates in a prolonged
slender point. The sides of the head anterior to the eyes nearly perpendicular,
behind the eyes prominent and convex; the nose is blunt and rounded.
Nostrils circular, and placed high in the suture between the nasal and naso-
frenal plates. Rostral plate behind semicircular; naso-rostral plates quadrangular,
broadest behind; fronto-nasal somewhat five-sided, two sides behind, one
in contact with the frontal, the other, the outer, with the anterior extremity
* Ch. Gen, Head rather broader than the neck, oblong and ovate. Nostrils lateral, between nasal
and naso-frenal plates. Prenal plate, one. Preocular plate, one. Postocular plates, two. Pupil
elliptic and vertical. Posterior maxillary tooth the longest, and grooved anteriorly. Body compressed.
Seales smooth, subimbrioate, and disposed in oblique rows, those of the dorsal row rather different in
form. Abdominal plates subangular. Submental plates two.