2. 6ITANA. 3. 0T0CRTPTI8. 271 



Upper head-scales small, sharply keeled: canthus rostralis and 

 supraciliary edge sharp, with strongly enlarged scales. Dorsal 

 scales larger than ventrals, with sharp keels forming straight longi- 

 tudinal lines ; lateral scales smallest, uniform or intermixed with 

 scattered enlarged ones. Limbs above with uniform strongly 

 keeled scales. The length of the limbs varies very much ; in some 

 specimens the hind limb stretched forwards does not extend beyond 

 the orbit, in others (S. minor, Gthr.) it reaches the tip of the snout 

 or even considerably beyond. Tail round, slender, once and a half 

 to twice as long as the head and body, covered with equal keeled 

 scales. Olive-brown above, with a series of rhomboidal spots along 

 the middle of the back ; a more or less distinct light band along each 

 side of the back ; gular appendage tricoloured — blue, black, and red. 



Total length 198 millim. 



Head 21 



Width of head 15 



Body 60 



Fore limb 40 



Hind limb 68 



Tail 117 



India ; Ceylon. 



a, b. c? . India. 



c-d.d2- India. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



e-f, ff-h. d 2 . India. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.J. ) .^ , 



i.Yg. India. Mr. Mathers. i'-^yP^^<'J 



k-m. c? 2 • Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. j '^•^"«<'^->' 



n-o. Hgr. S.E. Berar. Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



p-t. Hgr. Godavery Valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



M-y. S & hgr. W. of Raitsur. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.J. 



z-a. Yg. Sevagherrv. Col. Beddome [0.1. 



iS. Yg. Malabar. " Col. Beddome [C.I. 



y-8. Hgr. Ceylon. W. Iloldsworth, fisq. [C.]. 



3. OTOCRYPTIS. 



Otocryptis, Wiegm. Isis, 1831, p. 293, and Herp. Mex. p. 14; Wagl. 

 Syst. Amph. p. 150 : Dum. 8f Bihr. iv. p. 430 ; Fitzing. Si/st. Rept. 

 p. 48 ; Graij, Cat. p. 237 ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 127. 



Body compressed, limbs very long. Fifth toe very short, not 

 longer than first. All the scales keeled, the dorsals heterogeneous. 

 No dorsal crest. No gular fold. Male with a low nuchal crest and 

 a large folding gular appendage extending backwards tothe belly, and 

 covered with large scales. Ear concealed. No praeanal or femoral 

 pores. 



Ceylon ; Southern India. 



1. Otocryptis bivittata. 



Otocryptis bivittata, Ch'ay, Cat. p. 238. 

 Otocryptis bivittata, Wiegm. I. c. ; Dum. 8f Bibr. p. 432 ; Giinth. I. c. 



wiegmanni, Wagl. I, c. 



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