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S. Himalayanus, Stein, Novava. Kept., pt. 1, 1867, p. 22, 

 Enlaro^ed scales of the back smooth. 

 Inhabits Ladak and the Upper Indus valley. 



Trapelus, Cuvier. 



Body depressed, covered with irregular scales unequal in size. 

 Tail rounded, covered with imbricate keeled scales. Paratoids 

 unarmed. Head and neck without spines. Throat with a cross 

 fold. Nuchal crest none, or rudimentary. Neck contracted. 

 Eyelids with a fringe of small scales. A series of pores in the 

 male. Femoral pores none. 



T. megalonyx Giinth is recorded from Afghanistan, and may 

 range into India — or other species of the genus. 



Agama, Cuvier. 



Body depressed, covered with rhombic keeled scales with some 

 scattered spinous ones. Throat with a longitudinal and one or 

 two cross folds behind. Groups of spines on paratoids and 

 sides of neck. Tail covered with imbricate rhombic scales, a 

 series of pores in the male. Femoral pores none. 



A. agilis Oliv. 



Trapelusjlavimaculatus Rupp. Blyth, J. A. S., B., 1854. 



Uromasticid^. 

 Herbivorous agamoids mostly gregarious and social. 



LiOLEPis, Cuvier. 



Tympanum naked. Scales minute and granular. Tail depress- 

 ed, with very small square keeled scales arranged in transverse 

 series. Throat with two transverse folds. Ventral scales smooth. 

 Femoral pores. Skin of the trunk lax, forming a pseudo-para- 

 chute. 



