268 REPTILES. 



-{-f- Chin simple. Muzzle compressed, produced. 



The Sharp-nosed Chameleon. Chameleo nasutus, JDum.et 

 Bib. E. G. iii. 216. 



Occiput triangular, shelving backwards ; muzzle ending in a 

 small compressed lobe of skin ; back of the male with some round- 

 ed soft distant tubercles. 



a. In spirits. Madagascar. From the Paris Museum, 

 fff Chin simple. Muzzle of male forked. 



The Large-naped Chameleon. Chameleo bifurcus, Brogn. 

 Bull. Soc. Phil. iv. t.f. 2. Latr. Rept. ii. 18. Cuv. Oss. Foss. v. 

 269, t. 16,/. 32, 33. Grai/, Phil. Mag. 1827, 212. Griff. A. K. 

 ix. 54. C. bifidus, Daud. Rept. iv. 217, t. 54. Merrem, Tent. 162. 

 Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 233, t. 27 J. 3. 



Occiput flat, semicircular; the muzzle prolonged into 2 large 

 straight compressed lobes ; front of the dorsal line denticulated. 



a. Adult, in spirits, male? Nose-horns elongate, compressed, 

 acute. Madagascar. 



&, c. Nearly half-grown, in spirits, males ? Nose-horns short, ra- 

 ther compressed, truncated. Madagascar. Presented by J. 

 E. Gray, Esq. 



d. Half-grown, in spirits, female ? Nose without any horns, oc- 

 ciput rather wider. Madagascar. Presented by J. E. Gray, 

 Esq. 



ffff Chin bearded. Muzzle simple. 



The Fringed Chameleon. Chameleo Tigris, Cuv. Mus. 

 Paris, in Kuhl, Beytr. 155. Cuv. R. A. ii. 60. Gray, Phil. Mag. 

 1827, 213. Spic. Zool. 3, t. 3,/. 2. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 212. 

 C. Seychellensis, Pero?i, Kuhl, Beytr. 105. Gray, Phil. Mag. 1827, 

 214. C. fimbriatus, Wiedem. 



Occiput pointed, shelving behind, with a toothed keel, forked 

 in front ; back and chin with a small conical compressed beard ; 

 belly simple ; scales small, flat, equal, quadrangular. 



a. In spirits. Seychelle Islands. Presented by T. Bell, Esq. F.R.S. 



The Belly-shielded Chameleon. Chameleo ventralis. 



Occiput triangular, elongate, produced behind, with a low 

 central keel and strong warty ridges ; throat with compressed 

 crowded denticulated lobes of skin ; back and tail denticulated ; 

 belly simple ; scales granular, with series of large flat circular 

 scales on the sides of the body and tail, and crowded together on 

 the sides of the belly. 



a — d. In spirits. S. Africa. 



