CABRITA. 347 



ornatus, Carleyle, J. A. 8. B- 18G9, p. 192; Theob. Rep. Brit. Ind' 

 p. 40. — The Ouaran. 



Nostrils ovate, oblique, nearer the eye than nose ; superciliary scales 

 small and granular ; scales of the neck and back keeled ; of the belly 

 smooth, slightly raised in the centre. Tail unarmed, rounded, not 

 keeled; sides convex; scales in 116 transverse rows; colour olive 

 green or greenish ashy, passing on the neck into orange ; crown of head 

 black, with lines of the same colour below and behind the eyes and 

 down the neck ; a median black line along the nape, and some other less 

 distinct lines and dashes on nose, neck and shoulders ; below white ; 

 tail slightly more than half the total length. Grows to 30 inches. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Beloochistan, Persia 

 and Kutch. 



Family, LACERTID^. 



Land Lizards. 



Head covered with symmetrically arranged shields ; tongue slender, 

 free, exsertile, tip forked; scales on back granular or rhombic, of the 

 sides granular, of the belly quadrangulai', or rounded ; in transverse 

 bands. No longitudinal fold, but generally one across the throat. Tail 

 fragile, long, rounded, with the scales arranged in rings ; eyes diurnal, 

 eyelids present ; tympanum distinct ; limbs four. 



Cabrita, Gray. 



Nostrils on the ridge of the snout between an upper and a lower nasal 

 plate, both being rather swollen ; a small hinder nasal ; upper eyelid 

 short, lower large, with a transparent disc ; collar none, but a small fold 

 present before each shoulder ; scales of the back rhomboidal, keeled, 

 imbricate ; ventral scales four-sided, smooth, longitudinally arranged; 

 prag-anal shield single, surrounded by smaller ones ; femoral pores 

 distinct ; toes 5 — 5, keeled beneath, not toothed on the sides. 



Cabrita leschenaulti, M. Edw. Ann. 8c. Nat. xvi. pp. 80-86; 

 Gray, Oat. Liz. Brit. Mus. p. 43 ; Gunfh. Rep. Brit. India, p. 71 ; 

 Theob. Rep. Brit. Ind. p. 41 ; Muri-ay, Zool. , ^-c, 8ind, p. 268. Calos- 

 aura leschenaulti, D. et B. Erpet. gen. v. p. 262. Cabrita brunnea, 

 Gray, Ann. Nat. Kid. i. p. 282. — The Cabrite. 



Shields of the head lougitudinally rugose, with partially raised 

 margins. Rostral triangular, broader than high, separated from the 

 single prse-frontal by the supra-nasals, which are in contact with each 

 other. Prae-f rental triangular behind, separated from the vertical by the 

 post-frontals, which are in contact with each other. Vertical elongate, 

 obtusely sub-triangular in front, three-sided posteriorly. Two pairs of 

 occipitals ; anterior occipital sub -pentagonal ; inter-occipital triangular 

 in front, obtusely rounded posterioi-ly, with a small shield following ; 

 upper labials 8, the fifth very lai-ge, and under the eye. Mental large ; 

 5 pairs of chin shields behind it, three of which only are in contact ; 

 nostrils between the first upper labial, post-nasal, and two small shields ; 



