242 REPTILES. 



** Scales short, rhombic, rather blunt, slightly keeled. 



The Marbled False Galeote. Bronchocela mannorata. 

 Lophyes epineux, H. et J. Voy. a Pol Sud, Saur. i. 3 ? not de- 

 scribed, tail crested ? 



Purplish grey, head and neck green-raarhled ; scales of the 

 back and sides moderate, bluntly rhombic, slightly keeled, half the 

 size of those of the belly, of the nuchal crest rather broad ; tail 

 elongate, tapering (not crested). 



a. In spirits. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collec- 

 tion. 



*** Scales of sides large, smooth. 



The Streaked False Galeote. Bronchocela tympanistriga, 

 Gray, Griffith, A. K. ix. 56. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 399. 



A large spot on the muzzle, a band across the neck, and a 

 large disk on the side of the chest, brown ; crest serrated, gradu- 

 ally lowering to the base of the tail ; scales of the sides smooth, as 

 large as the ventral ; a subconic tubercle at the hinder end of the 

 eyebrow, 2 others on each side of the nape, and 1 a little behind 

 the ear ; tail compressed. 



Inhab. Java. Mus. Leyden. 



13. Salea. 



Head subquadrangular, covered with flat, keeled, not imbri- 

 cate scales. Occiput and sides of nape with a few scattered ra- 

 ther tubercular scales. Drum of ear exposed, superficial. Nape 

 mth a crest of two diverging series of rather compressed scales. 

 Scales of the back rhombic, keeled, placed in longitudinal series, 

 those of the lower part of the sides tending downwards, of the 

 neck and belly elongated, rhombic, keeled, of tail rhombic, im- 

 bricate. Back keeled, not crested. Tail elongate, tapering, with 

 imbricate keeled scales, rather larger beneath; rather keeled above. 

 Femoral and preanal pores none. Toes 5-5, unequal. 



Horsfield's Salea. Salea Horsfieldii. 

 Olive, varied with large brown spots, with a white streak at 

 the back edge of each thigh. 



a, b. In spirits. India, Afi'ghanistan. Presented by the India 

 Company. 



14, Calotes, Cuvier. Galeotes, Schlegel. 



Head pyramidical, quadrangular, covered with small equal- 

 sized angular scales, interparietal scale very small. The tongue 

 thick, fungose, slightly nicked. Nostrils lateral, near the end of 

 the muzzle, in a small shield, Throat more or less lax, without 

 any cross fold in front of the chest, sometimes with a longitudinal 



