150 



Hob. Agror Valley, iii Northern Punjab, about 6000 feet above 

 the sea ; Jhelum valley above Murree ; Kashmir. 



169. Agama melanura. 



Laudakia (Plocederma) melanura, Blyth, J, A. S. B. xxiii, 1854, 



p. 738. 

 Laudakia tuberculata (non Gray), Theob. Cat, Kept. As. Soc. Mus. 



1868, p. 38. 

 Stellio melanurus, Anders. P. A. S. B. 1871, p. 189 ; Theob. Cat. 



p. 117 ; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xlv, 1876, p. 25. 

 Agama melanura, Bouleny. Cat. Liz. i, p. 363. 



Head depressed, triangular, as broad as long ; snout as long as 

 the diameter of the orbit ; nostril lateral, just below the canthus 

 rostralis, slightly tubular. Upper head-scales smooth ; occipital 

 not enlarged ; a group of small spines in front of the ear, and other 

 scattered ones below ; ear opening twice as large as the eye-opening. 

 Throat strongly plicate ; no gular pouch. Body depressed, with a 

 slight fold on each side of the back ; scales on the neck and sides 

 very small, on the latter region mucronate and feebly keeled ; 

 median dorsal scales enlarged, rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly 

 keeled, forming regular longitudinal series, some of which are larger 

 than the others ; a very slight indication of a nuchal denticulatiou ; 

 ventral scales smooth, smaller than the largest dorsals. Limbs 

 strong, with compressed digits ; the scales on the upper surface of 

 the limbs large and very strongly keeled and spinose ; third and 

 fourth fingers nearly equal ; fourth toe very slightly longer than 

 third ; fifth extending beyond first. Tail rounded, depressed at the 

 base, covered with large strongly keeled spinose scales forming 

 annuli ; it is four times as long as the distance from gular fold to 

 vent. Males with a patch of callose praanal scales, and another 

 patch of similar scales on the middle of the belly. Head and neck 

 yellow, the rest of the body blackish brown. 



From snout to vent 4'5 inches ; tail 9. 



Hob. Plateau north of Salt Range, Punjab ; Khirthar, Sind. 



170. Agama lirata. 



Stellio lirata, Blanf. A. M. N. H. (4) xiii, 1874, p. 453, and Zool 



E. Pers. p. 320, pi. xx, fig. 2, 

 Agama lirata, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 364. 



Very closely allied to the preceding, but the scales on the snout 

 bluntly keeled, and the dorsal scales equal, forming six or seven 

 rows on the middle of the back. Dusky above, with imperfect 

 blackish transverse markings ; a small blackish pit before each 

 shoulder. 



From snout to vent 4 inches. 



Hob. The only specimen known, which I have not seen, was 

 found on rocks in some barren hills in the Dasht province of 

 Western Baluchistan. 



