342 AGAHIDiB. 



6. Agama isolepis. 



Agama agilis, (non Oliv.) Aud. Desc. Egypte, Rept. Suppl. p, 169, 



pi. i. fig. 5 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 384 ; Blanf. E. Pers. 



p. 314, andJown. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. 1876, p. 22, andxlviii. 1879, 



p. 129 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 371. 

 savignii, (non Aud.) Dum. ^ Bibr. iv. p. 508 ; Peters, Mon. 



Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 66. 

 Phrynopsis savignyi, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 80. 

 Trapelus, sp., Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 78. 

 ;- megalonyx, {non Gthr.) StoUczka, P'oc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, 



p. 128 ; Mun-ay, I. c. p. 370. 

 Agama agilis, part., Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 672. 



Head moderate, convex, subcordiform. Nostril not tubular, 

 superior, pierced just above the cantbus rostralis in the posterior 

 p'&.rt of a flat nasal. Upper head-scales convex, smooth or feebly 

 keeled ; occipital not enlarged ; generally a few short spines on the 

 post-temporal region and a few on the upper edge of the ear, which 

 is exposed and not larger than the eye-opening ; males with a small 

 gnlar pouch. Body roundish, moderately depressed, covered above 

 with equal, rhomboidal, imbricate, keeled, more or less distinctly 

 mucronate scales ; lateral and ventral scales much smaller, feebly 

 keeled, exceptionally smooth. Limbs moderate ; tibia a little 

 longer than the skull (to occiput) ; third finger shorter than fourth, 

 fifth not extending as far as second ; third toe much shorter than 

 fourth, fifth not extending quite as far as first. Tail twice and one 

 fourth to twice and two thirds as long as the distance from gular 

 fold to vent, rounded, covered with keeled scales. Male with a 

 single or double row of anal pores. Sandy grey or brown above, 

 with or without dark transverse bands and light rhomboidal vertebral 

 spots ; the collar-pit blackish ; lower surfaces white, often with 

 dark longitudinal lines more or less distinctly marked ; males 

 during the breeding-season with the sides of the body and the throat 

 deep blue. 



Total length 280 millim. 



Head 27 „ 



Width of head 23 „ 



Body 78 „ 



Fore limb 53 „ 



Hind limb 78 „ 



Tail 175 „ 



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