on the Saurian Reptiles of India, SSl 



Chamasleo Mexicanus. Laur. Rept, 45. 

 Lacerta chama?leon. /3. G?7iel. Si/st. Nat. i. 1069. 20* 

 Chamaeleon calcaratus. Merrem, Rept, i. 162. 

 All from Seba, i. t. 82. f. 1. which has the slight expan- 

 sion of the hinder part of the sole distorted into a 

 distinct toe. 

 terhaps also, 



Chamceleo AfricanuSi Laur, Rept, 46. 

 Lacerta Africana. Gmel, Syst. Nat, i, 1069. 60. 

 Chamseleon calcaratus (pars). Merrew, Rept* i. 162. AH 



estahlished from Seba^ i. t. 83. f. 4. 

 Chamaeleo Zealonicusi Laur, Rept, 46. 

 Chamaeleon subcroceus. Merreniy Rept. i. 162. Both from 

 Seba, 1. t. 82. f. 3. 

 Inhabits Africa and India. " Egypt, Barbary^ and South of 

 Spain," Cuvier, Central Africa, Colonel Denham, India^ Gen^ 

 Hardwicke, Tripoli, Mr, Ritchie. Egypt, Geoffroij^ 



This species, which is evidently the one originally described by 

 Linnaeus, is known by the peculiar pyramidical form of the occiput, 

 by the single large irregular quadrangular flat space on the cheek, 

 (which is double in C, pumila)^ and by the slightly crested 

 denticulated white line from the chin to the vent. The teeth are 

 rarely (as they are described to be by Cuvier) slightly 3-lobed, 

 which is an anomaly in those Lizards which have them placed on 

 the edge of the jaw. When the animal is alive and in health, 

 the angles of the occipital pyramid and the lines on the side of 

 the face are completely obliterated. It is distinguished from a spe- 

 cies from Central Africa, by the occipital keel extending to the 

 centre of the eye, by the back of the head being only slightly lobed^ 

 and by the frontal scales being tubercular. 



Fam. IV. GECKOTiDiE. 



Gen. 1. Pteropleuiia. n. g. 



Digiiis palmatis ad basin usque dilatatis, squamis latis uni- 

 Seriatis indivisis, ultimo articulo adunco libero, poUice muticoj 



