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that the tail is without tubercles. The type, which is in the Indian 

 Museum, though generall}' in good condition so far as the body is 

 concerned, is somewhat shrivelled and it is difficult to see whether 

 the fold is altogether absent. In the fresh specimen it is clearly 

 present. The tail, moreover, is partly surrounded by rings of 

 small nail-like tubercles interrupted on the dorsal and ventral 

 surfaces. Otherwise this specimen agrees with the type. The 

 species is not related in any close degree to any other, but, 

 despite its cylindrical tail, evidently comes nearest to G. stoliczkai, 

 with which it was placed provisionally in my recent revision of 

 the Indian representatives of the genus {Rec. Lnd. Mus. IX, p 316). 

 The flattened tail of G. stoliczkai must, therefore, be regarded as 

 no more than a specific character. 



Acanthosaura major. 



Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, p. 306, pi. xxiii, fig. 3 

 {1885). 



The typical form of this species, which Dr. Boulenger has 

 figured from the type, is a very different-looking lizard from the 

 one I described some 3^ears ago {Rec. lnd. Mus., I, p. 152 ; 1907) 

 under the name Acanthosaura kumaonensis , but the difference lies 

 solely in the smaller size, slighter build and rather longer tail of 

 the latter. With both a male and a female of A. major before 

 me — the female obtained at Tolpani in Garhwal by Col. Tytler 

 (9000 ft.), the male by myself outside the town of Simla {ca. 8000 

 ft.) — I can find no structural difference between the two forms, 

 except that the crest is higher in the typical male. This form 

 reaches a length of nearly 25 cm., whereas adult males of the 

 race or subspecies kumaonensis , as it may be called, are not longer 

 than 18 cm., the females being rather shorter. The typical form 

 is found in the Simla Hill States and Garhwal, probably at alti- 

 tudes above 6000 ft., whereas the race kumaonensis occurs a little 

 to the eastwards in Kumaon and in Garhwal at slightly lower 

 altitudes. Probably the two races merge gradually the one into 

 the other. The difference between them is similar in many 

 respects to that between the Peninsular race (subsp. gigas, Blyth) ' 

 and the typical northern and eastern race of Calotes versicolor. 



N. Annandale. 



' Recent investigations show that this larger race, in which the secondary 

 se.\ual characters of the male are very strongly developed, occupies the whole of 

 Peninsular India south of the Indo-Gangetic plain and also Ceylon. To the 

 north-west its range extends far beyond the Peninsular Area into Baluchistan. 

 The typical form of the species occupies the foot-hills of the Himalayas, the 

 Gangetic plain, Assam, Burma, Siam, the northern part of the Malay Peninsula,, 

 etc. Only adults of the two races can be distinguished satisfactorily. 



