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shorter than, the skull. Tail slightly compressed, above with un- 

 equal scales, beneath with equal larger ones, the size of which 

 does not exceed that of the ventrals ; all the caudal scales keeled. 

 Olive-brown above, flanks darker ; a band on the upper lip, whitish. 



From snout to vent 19 inches. 



Hob. Khasi Hills. 



Genus SALEA, 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242, 1845. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with uuequal- 

 sized imbricate keeled scales. Male with a dorso-nuchal crest and 

 a gular sac. No transverse gular fold. Tail compressed. No 

 femoral or praeanal pores. 



Distribution. Southern India; living on trees. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



No fold in front of the shoulder S. horsfieldii, p. 131. 



A fold in front of the shoulder & anamattayana, p. 132. 



140. Salea horsfieldii. 



Salea horsfieldii, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242 ; Giinth. Rept. B. I. p. 145 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. Ill ; Boukng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 312. 

 Salea jerdonii, Gray, A. M. N. H. xviii, 1840, p. 429; Kelaart, 



Prodr. p. 167 (?). 



Snout not more than once and a half as long as diameter of 

 orbit, which equals about twice that of tympanum ; upper head- 

 scales large, rugose, with a more or less marked curved series of 

 regular ones bordering the supraorbital region internally; a row 

 of 3 or 4 enlarged scales from the eye to above the tympanum. 

 Gular scales lanceolate, keeled, ending in a spine, as large as or a 

 little larger than the ventrals. No fold in front of the shoulder. 

 Nuchal crest in the male composed of a few lanceolate spines 

 directed backwards, the longest measuring nearly the length of the 

 snout, with smaller spines at the base ; in the female this crest is 

 reduced to a double row of alternate oblique short spines ; dorsal 

 crest not continuous with nuchal, composed of similar slightly 

 shorter lanceolate spines in the male, absent in the female. Dorsal 

 scales large, rhomboidal, strongly keeled, pointing straight back- 

 wards ; they are nearly always of unequal size, larger ones being 

 scattered on the sides; ventral scales very strongly imbricate, 

 strongly keeled and ending in a spine, nearly as large as the 

 dorsals. Limbs moderately elongate, the adpressed hind limb 

 reaching between the shoulder and the tympanum. Tail com- 

 pressed and with a small upper crest in ihe male, scarcely com- 

 pressed and without a crest in the female; caudal scales subequal, 



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