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strongly keeled. Pale olive above, with irregular dark-brown cross 

 bands, which may be broken up by a band of the light-brown 

 colour running along each side of the back ; the enlarged scales on 

 the sides frequently white ; a blackish band, edged below with 

 white, extends from the eye to the fore limb, passing through the 

 tympanum ; tail usually with regular dark-brown annuli. 



From snout to vent 3 - 75 inches ; tail 9*75. 



Hob. Nilgiri Hills, Southern India; Ceylon? 



141. Salea anamallayana. 



Lophosalea anamallayana, Beddome, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 153, pi. xiv. 

 Salea anamallayana, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 313. 



Snout long, measuring nearly twice the diameter of the orbit ; 

 tympanum 1| to lj^ the diameter of the orbit ; upper head-scales 

 rather large, feebly keeled, with a regular curved series of enlarged 

 scales bordering the supraorbital region internally: an enlarged 

 tubercle behind the supraciliary edge and a few others scattered on 

 the back of the head ; a row of 3 or 4 enlarged scales from the eye 

 to above the tympanum. Gular scales a little larger than ventrals, 

 smooth or keeled. A well-marked curved fold on each side of the 

 neck, in front of the shoulder. Dorso-nuchal crest continuous, 

 composed of large lanceolate spines. Dorsal scales of unequal 

 size, their arrangement varying considerably, strongly keeled, the 

 upper ones pointing upwards and backwards, the others straight 

 backwards or backwards and downwards ; ventral scales very 

 strongly imbricate, strongly keeled, and ending in a spine. The 

 adpressed hind limb reaches the neck. Tail strongly compressed, 

 in its anterior half with an upper crest nearly as much developed 

 as the dorsal ; caudal scales rather unequal in size, keeled. Pale 

 olive above, with 4 broad angular dark-brown cross bands on the 

 back, separated by narrow interspaces ; head to the lip dark brown, 

 with small light spots ; limbs and tail with more or less regular 

 dark-brown cross bars. 



From snout to vent 4*3 inches. 



Hob. Animalai (6000 feet) and Palni Hills. 



Genus CALOTES, 

 Cuvier, Regne An. ii, p. 35, 1817. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with equal-sized 

 scales. A dorso-iiuchal crest. A more or less developed gular 

 sac in the male ; no transverse gular fold, or a very feebly marked 

 one. Tail round or feebly compressed. No femoral or prseanal 

 pores. 



An essentially East-Indian genus, comprising 22 species, of 

 arboreal or subar boreal habits. 



