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13- Lophura Gray. 

 (Gray, Phil. Mag. II p. 56, 1827). 



Body compressed, covered with imbricate, keeled scales, 

 intermixed with large round keeled ones. Tympanum distinct; 

 throat with longitudinal folds ; a transverse gular fold. A dorsal 

 crest. Toes covered below with small granular scales, with a 

 lateral fringe of large united scales^ broadest on the outer side. 

 Tail strongly compressed, in the adult with a high crest, sup- 

 ported by the large spinose processes of the caudal vertebrae. 

 Femoral pores present. 



Distribution. Eastern part of the Archipelago; Philippines. 



Key to the Ind o- A ustralian species. 



A. Dorsal and nuchal crests continuous; tympanum 

 half the diameter of the orbit; tail more than 



twice the length of head and body i. Z. amboinensis^ p. 128. 



B. Dorsal and nuchal crests separated; tympanum 

 one third the diameter of the orbit ; tail not quite 



twice the length of head and body 2. L. weberi^ p. 130. 



I. Lophura amboinensis (Schlosser). 



Lacerta amboinensis^ Schlosser, Epistola, Amsterdam, 1768. 

 Lophura amboinensis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 402 (s. syn.). 

 Hydrosaurus amboinensis^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 87. 



Head small ; snout long, with a small longitudinal crest of 

 somewhat larger scales in the male; other head-scales very 

 small, strongly keeled. Nostril oval, two times and a half nearer 

 the tip of the snout than the orbit; tympanum large, half the 

 diameter of the orbit; eleven upper and twelve lower labials. 

 Gular scales small, unequal ; a row of large shields on each 

 side along the lower labials, beginning at the large mental ; 

 throat with longitudinal folds. Body compressed, nuchal crest 

 continuous with the dorsal, composed of large lanceolate spines. 

 Dorsal scales small, imbricate, keeled, all turned upwards, 

 intermixed with large, dispersed, rounded, keeled scales. Ven- 

 tral scales larger than dorsals, smooth, in transverse rows; 

 enlarged scales on the sides of the chest. Femoral pores 7 — 16 

 on each side. Tail long, more than twice the length of head 

 and body, covered with small quadrangular keeled scales, much 



