156 AGAMIDiE. 



and body, depressed throughout ; caudal scales keeled. Yellowish 

 brown or pale buff above, with black dots aud round pale yellow 

 spots ; the sides sometimes blackish ; frequently a blackish streak 

 along the outer side of the leg ; eyelids salmon-piuk. Lower sur- 

 faces white, belly sometimes pink ; tail salmon-pink, usually black 

 at the end, and with 1 to 3 black spots. 



From suout to vent 1-6 inches ; tail 1"6. 



Hub. Northern Baluchistan, between Nushki and Helmand 

 Eiver. 



Genus LIOLEPIS, 



Cuvier, Regne An. 2nd ed. ii, p. 37, 1829. 



Tympanum distinct. Body depressed ; skin of sides lax, expan- 

 sible ; no crest; scales very small. No gular pouch; a strong 

 transverse gular fold. Tail long, rounded, feebly depressed. 

 Femoral pores. 



Distribution. South-eastern Asia. A single species. 



1 79. Liolepis belliana. 



Uromastix belliana, Grai/, Zool. Jouni. iii, 1827, p. 220. 



Uromastix bellii. Gray, III. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxii. 



Liolepis bellii, Cantor, J. A. <S'. B. xvi, 1847, p. 647 ; Boulenrj. Cat. 



Liz. i, p. 403. 

 Liolepis guttatus, Gilnth. Rept. B. I. p. 154 ; Theob. Cat. p. 119. 



Head rather small ; snout with strongly curved profile, as long 

 as the diameter of the orbit or a little longer ; nostril large, 

 directed backwards ; tympanum large, vertically oval ; upper head- 

 scales small and strongly keeled on the snout and interorbital region, 

 minute and granular on the supraorbital region aud the occiput ; 

 no occipital. Gular scales small, granular ; a series of chin-shields 

 on each side, parallel with the infralabials, the first shield in con- 

 tact with the pentagonal mental and the first infralabial. Side of 

 neck plicate ; a more or less distinct fold along the side of the body. 

 Dorsal scales minute, granular, feebly keeled, uniform ; \entral 

 scales larger, subimbricate, smooth. Limbs rather long, with long 

 slender digits aud loug claws ; the adpressed hind limb reaches the 

 neck or the tymimnum ; 14 to 21 femoral pores on each side. Tail 

 about twice as long as head and body, round, depressed at the base, 

 tapering to a fine point, covei'ed with small, equal, keeled scales, 

 largest beneath. Grey, brownish or blackish above, with yellowish 

 black-edged spots which may form ocelli or be confluent into 

 longitudinal bands ; sides with black and orange A^ertical bars ; 

 lower surfaces yellow, uniform or variegated with black or blue. 



From snout to vent 7 inches ; tail 13. 



Hah. South Canara, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Siam, Southern 

 China. 



This lizard is herbi- and f rugivorous. Its power of expanding its 

 flanks in a sort of wing, supported by the very elongate spurious ribs, 



