32 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the 



several dissected it contained nothing but mucus. The length of oeso- 

 phagus and the stomach together was If inch. The anterior part of the 

 small intestines is widened till about a quarter of an inch from the 

 pyloric valve, where ductus coledochus enters. Coecum is very widened, 

 more so than any other part of the canal, of a crescent shape. 



Gen. Lophyrtjs, Dumeril. 

 Head triangular, more or less elongated, shelving in front ; orbital 

 edge arched or angular ; nostrils lateral, circular, or oval ; tongue papil- 

 lary, rounded and very slightly notched at the point ; in the upper jaw 

 5 incisors and 2 canines ; tympanum superficial ; skin of the throat 

 lax, forming in some a scarcely perceptible, in others a highly developed 

 pouch, and an angular cross fold in front of the chest ; neck, trunk and 

 tail compressed, with a crest, generally most elevated on the nape of 

 the neck ; scales of the trunk rhombic, subimbricate, unequal, (with 

 scattered larger scales) ; femoral pores none. 



Lophyrus armatus, (Gray.) 



Syn. — Agama armata, Gray. 



Calotes tropidogaster, Cuvier.* 

 Acantliosaura armata, Graj\ 



Orbital edge slightly angular, with a long spine at its posterior 

 extremity ; no spinous tubercles on the occiput ; on each side of the 

 nape of the neck, immediately above the ear, another long spine, sur- 

 rounded with 5 to 6 shorter ones, at its base, from whence proceed 

 obliquely over the temple and cheek a curved series of 18 larger poly- 

 gonal, keeled scales ; tympanum thick, circular ; on the neck a crest of 

 S to 12 long spines, surrounded with numerous smaller ones at the 

 base ; at a short interval the dorsal crest, the anterior 5 to 6 spines of 

 which are very long, the rest rapidly decreasing towards the tail ; gular 

 pouch very small, not toothed, with scales of equal size ; tail subtrian- 

 gular, with a toothed crest above. 



Above. Head chestnut ; trunk and limbs blackish green, with a 

 black transversal band in the interval between the cervical and dorsal 

 crests, continued over the shoulders, with numerous pale yellowish 

 white, black-edged, rounded spots, assuming the shape of transversal 

 bands on the limbs and the tail ; the larger single scales on the sides, 

 limbs and tail clear sky-blue ; from the orbit over the lip 5 to 6 radiat- 

 * I!y mistake : Calotes lepidogaster, R6grie nnim. 1829. T. ii. p. 39. 



