LIZARDS. 237 



** Toes 5-5. Tail with elongated heeled scales beneath. Scales 

 small, generally with cross bands of larger ones. Lyriocephalina. 



f Ears hidden under the skin. 



5. Lyriocephalus, Merrein. 



Head short, triangular. Eyebrow-ridges high, prolonged be- 

 hind. End of the muzzle with a large rounded scaly prominence. 

 Tongue thick, broad, entire. Ear-drum hidden under the skin. 

 Throat-pouch small, compressed, with an angular fold in front of 

 the chest. Body, neck and tail compressed, with a small toothed 

 crest. Scales small, subimbricate, with cross bands of larger 

 ones. Femoral and preanal pores none. 



The Lyriocephale. Lyriocephalus scutatus, Wagler, Syst. 

 150. Gray, Grijf. A. K. ix. 54. Lacerta scutata, Linn. S. N. 

 360. Seba, i. f. 109,/. 3. Shaiv, Zool. iii. t. 68. Latr. Rept. i. 

 267. Kuhl. Beytr. 106. Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. 54. Lyr. raar- 

 garitaceus, Merrem, Tent. 49. Guerin, Icon. t. 8,/. 2. Schinz, t. 

 26, f. 2. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 427. Lyr. Macgregorii, Gray^ 

 III. Ind. Zool. t. 



Bluish white, beneath paler ; head yellowish grey. 



Inhab. East Indies. 5lus. Chatham. 



6. Ceratophora, Gray. 



Head quadrangular, with small rather convex scales. Eye- 

 brows rather produced horizontally. Muzzle prolonged into a coni- 

 cal horn-like process. Nostril lateral, anterior. Throat with oblique 

 series of slightly dilated rhombic shieldlike scales on the sides, and 

 2 rows of smaller scales in the middle. Ear-drum hidden under 

 the skin. Occiput and temples rather tubercular. Nape with a 

 crest of conical scales. Back slightly keeled. Scales of the back 

 rhomboidal, unequal, placed in oblique bands, of the belly small- 

 er, equal, smooth. Femoral pores none. Tail elongate, tapering, 

 with 2 rows of narrow keeled scales beneath. 



Stoddart's Ceratophora. Ceratophora Stoddartii, Gray, 

 III. Ind. Zool. ii. t. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 434. 



Bluish, black-banded ; throat pale whitish ; tail brown-ringed. 



a. In spirits. Ceylon. Presented by Col. Stoddart, R. Staff C. 



7. Otocryptis, Weigmann. 



Head short, pyramidical, 4-sided, sides vertical. Muzzle flat, 

 blunt, not swollen, concave between the eyes, flattened behind. 

 Orbital ridges ending in obtuse angles, covered with imbricate 

 scales, but not supported by bones. Ear-drum hidden by the skin. 

 Throat bag-like. Body compressed. Limbs slender, very long. 

 Femoral pores none. Tail round, long, slender, base compressed. 



