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from the eye. Labials dark spotted or wholly brown. Tail 

 encircled with broad dark bands. 



Length, body 400 ; tail ll'OO = 15-00 inches. 



Inhabits the Andaman and Nikobar Islands, swarming at 

 Kamorta and Nankowri. (Stoliczka, J. A. S., B., 1870, p. 182.) 



Charasia, Gray. 



Body and sides covered with small keeled scales with some 

 larger ones interspersed. 



Tail round. A fold before the shoulder and giUar sack in 

 males, {Oriocalotes, Gunther), 



C. minor. Gray, 



Oriocalotes minor Gray. Giinther, I. R., p. 147. 



Scales of moderate size with larger ones intermixed, the tips 

 directed upwards ; a spine behind the superciliary ridge ; a dorsal 

 crest, more distinct in males. Subcaudals keeled, as broad as 

 long. Aspect that of a Calotes. A low crest of triangular spines 

 commences on the neck, and is continued to the end of trunk. 

 Scales on the sides as large as those of the belly, with larger 

 intermixed. Colour greyish olive, marked with brown ; brown 

 bands on the limbs, tail, and between the orbits which are 

 marked also with radiated streaks. 



Length, body 2-50 ; tail 4-50 = 7'00 inches. 



Inhabits Sikkim. ' 



C. major, Jerdon. Proc. As. Soc. B., March 1870, p. 77. 

 Closely allied to the last, but differs in the scales of the belly 

 being conspicuously larger than those of the sides, and in 

 colouration. Colour purplish grey above with black cross band on 

 the head, and, arrow-shaped ones on the trunk, to the root of the 

 tail. A blackish band from the eye along the side of the neck. 

 Sides green, mixed with black (the black scales small and smooth, 

 the green large and keeled). Limbs and tail barred and ringed with 

 dusky. Throat white, black dotted. Gular sack light purple. 

 Belly tawny white, brown dotted. 



