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shorter than, the skull. Tail slightly compressed, above with un- 

 equal scales, beneath with equal larger ones, the size of which 

 does not exceed that of the ventrals ; all the caudal scales keeled. 

 Olive-brown above, flanks darker ; a baud on the upper lip, whitish. 



From snout to vent 1'9 inches. 



Ifetb. Khasi Hills. 



Genus SALEA, 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242, 1845. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with unequal 

 sized imbricate keeled scales. Male with a dorso-nuchal crest and 

 a gular sac. No transverse gular fold. Tail compressed. No 

 femoral or pra;anal pores. 



Distribution. Southern India ; living on trees. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



No fold in front of the shoulder S. horsfieldii, p. 131. 



A fold in front of the shoulder S. anamaUayana, p. 132. 



140. Salea horsfieldii. 



Salea horsfieldii, Gray, Cat. Liz*p. 242 ; Gilnth. Rept. B. I. p. 145 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. Ill ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 312. 

 Salea jerdonii, Gray, A. M. N. H. xviii, 1846, p. 429; JKelaart, 



Prodi: p. 107 (?). 



Snout not more than once and a half as long as diameter of 

 orbit, which equals about twice that of tympanum ; upper head- 

 scales large, rugose, with a more or less marked curved series of 

 regular ones bordering the supraorbital region internally; a row 

 of 3 or 4 enlarged scales from the eye to above the tympanum. 

 Gular scales lanceolate, keeled, ending in a spine, as large as or a 

 little larger than the ventrals. No fold in front of the shoulder. 

 Nuchal crest in the male composed of a few lanceolate spines 

 directed backwards, the longest measuring nearly the length of the 

 snout, with smaller spines at the base ; in the female this crest is 

 reduced to a double row of alternate oblique short spines ; dorsal 

 crest not continuous with nuchal, composed of similar slightly 

 shorter lanceolate spines in the male, absent in the female. Dorsal 

 scales large, rhomboidal, strongly keeled, pointing straight back- 

 wards ; they are nearly always of unequal size, larger ones being 

 scattered on the sides; ventral scales very strongly imbricate, 

 strongly keeled and ending in a spine, nearly as large as the 

 dorsals. Limbs moderately elongate, the adpressed hind limb 

 reaching between the shoulder and the tympanum. Tail com- 

 pressed and with a small upper crest in the male, scarcely com- 

 pressed and without a crest in the female ; caudal scales subtqual, 



