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L. guttatus Cuv. 



Uromastix Belliana, Gray. 

 Leiolepis Reevesii, Gray. 

 L. Bellii, Gray. 



Eyelids scaly. Thirteen to nineteen femoral pores on each 

 thigh, separated in the pubic region. Colour pale reddish brown 

 with numerous dark circled orange spots on the back. Sides 

 sharply barred with black and bright orange alternately. Tail 

 pale greenish brown minutely yellow dotted above. Underside 

 pale yellowish, eye oval black, brown ringed. Tail seasonally 

 suffused with red ; throat blue ; belly orange, reticulated with 

 blue. 



Length, body 600 ; tail IS'OO = 19-00 inches. 



Inhabits the Malayan peninsula, Tenasserim, Pegu, and 

 Arrakan, and found by Beddome in Kanara. 



I gravely doubt if Cantor's idea that these lizards use their 

 lax membrane as a parachute to aid their flight from tree to 

 tree as the dragons do, is correct. The dragons, when alarmed, 

 take flight at once, but I am perfectly familiar with this lizard 

 and have never seen it seek a tree, or adopt any means of escape, 

 but a hasty retreat to its burrow. Draco is not a burrower — 

 Leiolepis is, and they are gregarious, and cuniculine in their 

 habits as well as diet, and never ascend trees, 



Uromastix, Merrem. 



Tympanum naked, scales minute and granular. Tail depressed 

 surrounded by rings of spinous tubercles, not reaching below. 

 Throat with a transverse fold. No dorsal crest. Ventral scales 

 smooth. Femoral and prseanal pores. 



U. Hardwickii, Gray. 



Saara Hardwickii, Gray. 

 Head short, obtuse. Eye rather small. Eyelids scaly. Skin 

 of throat very lax. Tail depressed, very broad anteriorly 

 ringed with transverse series of spinous shields with granular 

 interspaces. A series of eighteen femoral pores on each thigh 

 interrupted in the pubic region. 



