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and body, depressed throughout ; caudal scales keeled. Yellowish 

 brown or pale buff above, with black dots and round pale yellow 

 spots ; the sides sometimes blackish ; frequently a blackish streak 

 along the outer side of the leg ; eyelids salmon-pink. Lower sur- 

 faces white, belly sometimes pink ; tail salmon-pink, usually black 

 at the end, and with 1 to 3 black spots. 



From snout to vent 1-6 inches ; tail 1'6. 



Hab. Northern Baluchistan, between Xushki and Helmand 

 River. 



Genus LIOLEPIS, 

 Cuvier, Regne An. 2nd ed. ii, p. 37, 1829. 



Tympanum distinct. Body depressed ; skin of sides lax, expan- 

 sible; no crest; scales very small. No gular pouch; a strong 

 transverse gular fold. Tail long, rounded, feebly depressed. 

 Femoral pores. 



Distribution. South-eastern Asia. A single species. 



179. Liolepis helliana. 



Uromastix belliana, Gray, Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, p. 220. 



Uromastix bellii, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxii. 



Liolepis bellii, Cantor, J. A. 8. B. xvi, 1847, p. 647 ; Bouleng. Cat. 



Liz. i, p. 403. 

 Liolepis guttatus, Giinth. Kept. B. I. p. 154 ; Theob. Cat. p. 119. 



Head rather small ; snout with strongly curved profile, as long 

 as the diameter of the orbit or a little longer; nostril large, 

 directed backwards ; tympanum large, vertically oval ; upper head- 

 scales small and strongly keeled on the snout and interorbital region, 

 minute and granular on the supraorbital region and the occiput ; 

 no occipital. Gular scales small, granular ; a series of chin-shields 

 on each side, parallel with the infralabials, the first shield in con- 

 tact with the pentagonal mental and the first infralabial. Side of 

 neck plicate ; a more or less distinct fold along the side of the body. 

 Dorsal scales minute, granular, feebly keeled, uniform ; ventral 

 scales larger, subimbricate, smooth. Limbs rather long, with long 

 slender digits and long claws ; the adpressed hind limb reaches the 

 neck or the tympanum ; 14 to 21 femoral pores on each side. Tail 

 about twice as long as head and body, round, depressed at the base, 

 tapering to a fine point, covered with small, equal, keeled scales, 

 largest beneath. Grey, brownish or blackish above, with yellowish 

 black-edged spots which may form ocelli or be confluent into 

 longitudinal bands ; sides with black and orange vertical bars ; 

 lower surfaces yellow, uniform or variegated with black or blue. 



From snout to vent 7 inches ; tail 13. 



Hub. South Canara, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Southern 

 China. 



This lizard is herbi- and f rugivorous. Its power of expanding its 

 flanks in a sort of wing, supported by the very elongate spurious ribs, 



