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Olive-brown or greenish-brown above, with dark transverse 

 bands; dark brown streaks radiating from the eye, a broad 

 blackish band from the eye, through the ear to the shoulder, 

 bordered above by a light streak. Limbs with dark bands; 

 tail with dark and light annuli. Lower parts yellowish-brown, 

 spotted with black; gular sac bluish, with yellowish lines. 

 Young specimens have dark oblique lines on the throat and 

 the gular fold black. Length of head and body 98 mm. ; tail 

 160 mm. 



Habitat: Java (Buitenzorg, Tjibodas 1425 M. !, WiUis Mts., 

 Volcano Tjisurupan, Nongkodjadjar in Tengger Mts. 1300 M.!). 



3. Gonyocephalus chamaeleontinus (Laur.). 



Iguana chamaekoniifm., Laurenti, Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 47. 



Gonyocephalus chamaeleontinus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1887, p. 285 (s. syn.). 



Snout as long as the diameter of the orbit, with a rounded 

 elevation in the female; canthus rostralis projecting; supra- 

 ciliary borders strongly raised, angular posteriorly; tympanum 

 distinct, about half the diameter of the eye-opening. Head- 

 scales moderate, slightly unequal, smooth; a few enlarged tu- 

 bercles above the ear; ten to twelve upper and eleven to 

 fourteen lower labials. Gular sac large, with a serrated anterior 

 edge, covered with small smooth scales. Body strongly com- 

 pressed ; nuchal and dorsal crests continuous, beginning on a 

 line with the posterior border of the orbit, the former very 

 high, its height equals the length of the snout; it is composed 

 of long compressed scales, with three rows of smaller ones at 

 the base ; dorsal crest much lower, reduced to a ridge posteriorly. 

 Dorsal scales very small, smooth, with some enlarged ones 

 here and there; ventral scales much larger, smooth. Tail 

 strongly compressed, with serrated upper edge and covered 

 with large smooth scales (sometimes feebly keeled), and larger 

 keeled inferior ones, its length nearly one time and three fourths 

 that of head and body. Limbs long and slender, the hind 

 limb reaches the posterior border of the orbit ; scales of limbs 

 slightly unequal, smooth or faintly keeled; fourth finger a little 

 longer than third. 



OHve or greenish above, with dark brown reticulation and 

 transverse bands ; dark lines radiating from the eye ; tail with 

 dark and light annuli. Lower parts olive or brownish. Length 

 of head and body 156 mm.; tail 256 mm. 



