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round middle oE body ; dorsal scalevS keeled, all directed upwards 

 4ind backwards ; ventral scales smaller, strongly keeled. Hind 

 limb reacbiug eye; third and fourth fingers nearly equal. Tail 

 ■slightly compressed. Pale sage green to olive, with transverse 

 dark brown bands whicli are interrupted by a more or less 

 strongly defined whitish lateral band ; blackish lines i-adiatitig 

 from the eye ; the fold in front of the shoulder black : male with 

 the skin and base of scales on gular ])ouch dark crimson lake. 



Erom snout to vent 90 millim. ; tail :240. 



Khasi and Kakhyeu Hills, Pegu, Tenasserim, Mergui, Siam. 

 In the Malay Peninsula, known from Trang and the Patani States, 

 and recently met with at Parifc on the Perak River, south of 

 which it has not been found. A jungle-loving lizard. 



Genus LIOLEPIS. 

 Cuvier, Regne An., 2ud ed. ii, p. 37 (1829). 



Body depressed ; skin of sides lax, expansible ; no crest ; scales 

 very small. Tympanum disti]ict. No gular pouch; a strong 

 transverse gular fold. Tail long, rounded, feebly depressed. 

 Femoral pores, 



South-Eastern Asia. A single species. 



74, Liolepis belliana. 



Uromastix belliana, Gray, Zool. Jouni. iii, p. 220 (1827). 

 Leiolepis bellii, Cantor, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xvi, p. G47 (1847), 

 Liolejjis guttatus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 154 (1864). 

 Liolepis belliana, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 403 (188o); id. Faun. 



Brit. Ind., Kept, p. 156 (1890) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 642 ; 



Ridley, Journ. Straits Br. Asiat. Soc. No. 32, p. 191 (1899) ; 



Bouleng. Fascic. Malay., Zool. i, p. 155, pi. x, fig, 2 (1903). 



Malay name, Biawah pasir. 



Head rather small, snout short ; tympanum large, vertically 

 oval ; upper head-scales small and sharply keeled on snout and 

 interorbital region, niinute and granular on supraorbital region 

 and occiput. Gular scales small, granular ; a series of chin- 

 shields on each side, parallel with the lower labials. Side of neck 

 plicate ; a more or less distinct fold along side of body. Dorsal 

 scales minute, granular, feebly keeled, ventrals larger, subimbri- 

 cate, smooth. Hind limb reaching neck or tympanum; 14 to 21 

 femoral pores on each side. Tail covered with small, equal, keeled 

 scales. Adult grey, olive-green, brownish, or blackish above, with 

 yellow black-edged spots which may form ocelli or be confluent 

 into longitudinal bands ; sides with black or dark blue and orange 

 vertical bars ; lower parts yellow, or greyish, uniform or varie- 

 gated with black or blue. Young blackish above, with five yellow 

 longitudinal lines, the median bifurcating (m the nape; tail bright 

 ,brick-red. 



From snout to vent 170 millim. ; tail 330, 



