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shorter than, the skull. Tail slightly compressed, above with un- 

 c'(|iuil scales, beneath with equal larger ones, the size of which 

 does not exceed that of the veutrals ; all the caudal scales keeled. 

 Olive-brown above, tlanks darker ; a band on the upper lip, whitish. 



From snout to vent ID inches. 



J/ab. Khasi Hills. 



Genus SALEA, 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242, 1845. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with unequal- 

 sized imbricate keeled scales. Male with a dorso-nuchal crest and 

 a guhir sac. No transverse gular fold. Tail compressed. No 

 femoral or praianal pores. 



Distribution. Southern India ; living on trees. 



Synojisis of the Species. 



No fold in front of the slioiiklor S. horsfiehlii, p. 131. 



A fold in front of the shoidder S. (ma7)iaUuijanu, p. 132. 



140. Salea horsfieldii. 



Salea horstieldii, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242 ; Giinth. Bept. B. I. p. 14o ; 



Theob. Cat. p. Ill ; Boulein/. Cat. Liz. i, p. .'>12. 

 Salea p'vdonii, Gray, A. M. N. II, xviii, 184(>, p. 420; Kelaart, 



Pro'dr. p. 1(J7(?). 



Snout not more than once and a half as long as diameter of 

 orbit, \\hich equals about twice that of tynij)anum ; upper head- 

 scales large, rugose, with a more or less marked curved series of 

 ivgular ones bordering the supraorbital region internally ; a row 

 of 3 or 4 enlarged scales from the eye to above the tympanum. 

 Gular scales lanceolate, keeled, ending in a spine, as large as or a 

 little larger than the veutrals. No fold in front of the shoulder. 

 Nuchal crest in the male composed of a few lanceolate spines 

 dii-ected backwards, the longest measuring nearly the length of the 

 snout, with smaller spines at the base ; in the female this crest is 

 reduced to a double row of alternate oblique short spines ; dorsal 

 crest not continuous with nuchal, composed of similar slightly 

 shorter lanceolate spines in the male, absent in the female. Dorsal 

 scales large, rhomboidal, strongly keeled, pointing straight back- 

 wards ; they are nearly always of unequal size, larger ones being 

 scattered on the sides; ventral scales very strongly imbricate, 

 strongly keeled and ending in a spine, nearly as large as the 

 dorsals. Limbs moderately elongate, the adpressed hind limb 

 reaching between the shoulder and the tympanum. Tail com- 

 pressed and witb a small upper crest in the male, scarcely com- 

 pi'essed and without a crest in the female ; caudal scales subequal, 



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