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fold; gular scales very small, subimbricate, smootb, very feebly 

 keeled in the young. Scales on the body very small (115 to 140 

 round the middle), subimbricate, and smooth or indistinctly keeled in 

 the adult, more distinctly keeled and imbricate in the young, the 

 keels of the dorsal scales directed obliquely towards the vertebral 

 line. Dorso-nuchal crest scarcely indicated by a slight ridge. 

 Limbs covered with small scales slightly larger than those on the 

 body ; digits moderately elongate ; the adpressed hind limb reaches 

 between the tympanum and the posterior border of the orbit in the 

 adult, beyond the latter point in the young. Tail round, slightly 

 compressed and much swollen at the base in the adult male, covered 

 with small, more or less distinctly keeled scales which are a little 

 enlarged inferiorly and on the upper median series ; its length equals 

 nearly once and three fourths that of head and body. Young olive- 

 brown, spotted or marbled with brown, and with a series of rounded 

 white spots along each side of the back ; this coloration more or 

 less distinctly retained in the female ; male yellow or red, with a 

 broad black lateral band commencing from the eye. 



Total length 339 millim. 



Head 38 „ 



Width of head 32 „ 



Body 86 „ 



Fore limb 60 „ 



Hind limb 87 „ 



Tail 215 „ 



Southern India. 



a,b,c. cT , 2 , & hgr. India. East India Company [P.]. 



d. (^. India. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. 



e. 9 . Madras. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



f. S- Malabar. Col. Beddorae [0.]. 

 ff. Yg. Nilgherries. F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 

 A. Hgr. ? 



2. Charasia blanfordiana. 



Charasia dorsalis, {non Gray) Blanf. Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 



1870, p. 368 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 382. 

 blanfordana, Stoliczka, Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 110. 



This species is very closely allied to the preceding, but remains 

 smaller ; the scales are a little larger (80 to 100 round the middle 

 of the body) and always distinctly keeled and imbricate ; and the 

 hind limb stretched forwards extends at least to the posterior 

 border of the orbit. The nuchal crest is a little more developed. 

 Frequently a small spine behind the supraciliary edge, and a few 

 scattered slightly enlarged scales on the flanks. Young olive-brown 

 above, spotted or marbled with brown, and with a series of more or 

 less distinct large lozenge-shaped brown spots on the back : these 

 markings persist in the adult female, but are absent in the male, 

 which has a more or less distinct dark lateral band as in C. dorsalis. 



