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ciliary edge and another on each side behind the ear opening. 

 Seven or eight upper and eight lower labials; gular scales 

 smooth or feebly keeled, those on the median line the smallest, 

 the laterals larger than the ventrals. Body compressed ; nuchal 

 crest formed of lanceolate, sharply-pointed spines, not quite 

 so long as the diameter of the tympanum ; dorsal crest, separated 



Fig. 51. Lophocalotes ludekingi (Bleeker). 



from the former, formed by about fourteen triangular spines, 

 every alternate median scale being a spine. Dorsal scales 

 large, feebly keeled, the points of the upper scales directed 

 upwards ; ventral scales smaller than dorsal, strongly keeled. 

 Tail compressed at the base, covered with uniform keeled 

 scfales ; its length nearly equals one time and three fourths that 

 of head and body. Limbs with subequal keeled scales, some 

 of which are spinose; fourth finger and toe slightly longer 

 than third ; the hind limb, laid forwards, nearly reaches the 

 tympanum. 



Green above, with irregular yellowish markings, forming 

 spots or cross bars on head and body and cross bars on the 

 limbs. Length of head and body 92 mm.; tail 152 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Mt. Singalang, 2800 M., Alahan Pand- 

 jang!, Agam). 



9. Dendragama Doria. 

 (DoRiA, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) VI p. 649, 1888). 

 Body compressed, covered with equal or slightly unequal 



