The body scales are small and homogeneous. The dorsal surface is a rich brown colour, flecked with small, paler brown spots and black flecks. The snout is pale brown above and the top of the head is a darker brown. There is a broad blackish streak from the snout to the eye and a narrow black streak from behind the eye over the pale tympanum. A pale labial streak also merges with the tympanum.
Original tails are dark brown to black, with four or five narrow white crossbands.
Regenerated tails are brown with darker speckles. One or two parchment shelled eggs. Hides in the leaf litter, in hollow limbs, decaying trunks and buttresses and epiphytes by day. Forages among low vegetation and debris on the forest floor. Cogger, H. G. 1992.