116 AGAMIES. 



with scattered enlarged ones ; ventral scales larger than dorsals. 

 Limbs covered with large subequal scales ; the hind limb stretched 

 forwards reaches far beyond the tip of the snout, the heel reaching 

 the eye or the posterior border of the orbit. Tail round, slender, 

 2g times as long as head and body, covered with equal strongly 

 keeled scales. Brownish olive above, sides darker ; a dark-brown, 

 light-edged cross band between the eyes, and more or less distinct 

 dark cross bands along the middle of the back ; generally a light 

 oblique band from below the eye to the angle of the mouth ; males 

 generally with a light band along each side of the back ; limbs 

 and tail with more or less distinct dark cross bars ; lower surfaces 

 whitish, the throat brownish in the females and young. 



From snout to vent 2-6 inches ; tail 7. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



120. Otocryptis beddomii. 

 Otocryptis beddomii, Rouleny. Cat. Liz. i, p. 272, pi. xxiii, fig. 1. 



Head-scales as in the preceding, but the interorbitals only 

 a little smaller than the others, in two or three longitudinal 

 series ; the A -shaped figure formed by the keels of some of the 

 scales generally indistinct ; canthus rostralis less prominent ; 9 or 

 10 upper and as many lower labials. A small pit on each side of 

 the neck, in front of the shoulder. Dorsal scales unequal, the en- 

 larged ones sometimes forming regular chevrons on the back, with 

 the point directed backwards, or a lateral longitudinal series, the 

 latter always distinct on the sacral region ; lateral scales a little 

 smaller, with scattered enlarged ones ; ventral scales much larger 

 than dorsals. Limbs above with large equal keeled scales ; the 

 hind limb stretched forwards reaches beyond the tip of the snout, 

 the heel reaches the tympanum. Tail round, slender, not twice as 

 long as head and body, covered with equal strongly keeled scales. 

 Light brownish olive above, uniform, or with small scattered dark- 

 brown spots on the back and limbs ; a more or less distinct light 

 dark-edged oblique band from below the eye to the mouth ; lower 

 surfaces whitish, the throat brownish in the young. 



From snout to vent 1-75 inches ; tail 3. 



Hob. Sivagiri Ghat, Tinnevelly, S. India. Found on grass at an 

 elevation of about 4300 feet. 



Genus PTYCTOL2EMUS, 



Peters, MB. Ak. Berl. 1864, p. 386. 



Body compressed. Fifth toe much longer than first. All the 

 scales keeled, the dorsals heterogeneous. No dorsal crest. Three 

 parallel longitudinal folds on each side of the middle of the throat, 

 curved and converging backwards, forming a U~ sna P e ^ figure. 

 Ear concealed. No praeaual or femoral pores. 



A single species. 



