62 Harbour New /Species of Chamaeleon. 



Chamaeleo macrorhinus sp. nov. 



Specific characters. Casque not elevated posteriorly. A single large 

 dermal fold, unnotched and undivided on the median line, borders the 

 casque from shoulder to shoulder. There is neither a lateral nor a 

 parietal crest on the casque, nor dorsal, ventral nor gular crest on the 

 head and body. The whole surface of the body is covered with rather 

 small, subequal, polygonal, granular tubercles. On the snout there is 

 a large oblong dermal process covered with round granules. At a little 

 more than half way between the eye and the dermal process there is, on 

 each side, an excrescence composed of a number of elongated tubercles 

 partially fused. The tail is of about the same length as the head and 

 body. 



Type. An apparently adult female from Madagascar, No. 5988, of the 

 Reptilian Collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Measurements. Total length, 85 mm. ; length of mandible, 11 mm. ; tip 

 of snout to extremity of casque, 16 mm. ; greatest width between lateral 

 cranial crests, 6 mm.; width of head, 9 mm.; depth of skull, including 

 mandible, 12 mm.; length of head and body, 43; length of tibia, 8 mm.; 

 length of tail, 42 mm. 



