19. AGAMA. 347 



fifth not extending as far as first. Tail once and two thirds to once 

 and three fourths as long as the distance from gular fold to vent, 

 rounded, rather depressed at the hase, covered with keeled scales. 

 Male with a row of anal pores. " Colour olive-hrown to grey, spotted 

 with pale yellow, each enlarged scale of the hack being in the middle 

 of a pale spot ; a dusky longitudinal line on each side of the neck 

 and three or four pairs of dark spots on the back ; a bright red patch 

 beneath the throat in living specimens of both sexes." 



Total length 175 millim. 



Head 20 „ 



Width of head 19 „ 



Body 60 „ 



Pore limb 38 „ 



Hind limb 53 „ 



Tail 95 „ 



Sind ; Baluchistan ; Persia. 

 a-b. (S & yg. Upper Sind. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 



13. Agama megalonyx. 



Trapelus megalonyx, Giinth. JRept. Brit. Ind. p. 169, pi. xiv. fig. 0. 



Head short, convex, subcordiform. Nostril not tubular, superior, 

 pierced in the posterior part of a small flat nasal just above the 

 nan thus rostralis. Upper head-scales keeled ; occipital not enlarged ; 

 no distinct spines on the hinder part of the head ; a feeble fringe of 

 pointed scales on the upper edge of the ear, which is smaller than 

 the eye-opening. Body depressed, covered above with unequal 

 rhomboidal imbricate scales, the smaller being smooth or indistinctly 

 keeled, the larger being more than twice as large and distinctly 

 keeled ; ventral scales smooth. Limbs moderate, the fore pair 

 • relatively more developed and armed with very long claws; tibia as 

 long as 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 as far as first. Tail not quite twice as 

 long as the distance from gular fold to vent, rounded, covered with 

 equal keeled scales. Greyish above, with darker transverse bands 

 on the back, and a vertebral series of dark-edged light spots ; a dark 

 longitudinal band on each side of the neck ; collar-pit black ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



Total length 140 millim. 



Head 18 „ 



Width of head 16 „ 



Body 47 ., 



Fore limb 36 „ 



Hind limb 46 „ 



Tail 75 „ 



Afghanistan ? 

 a. $. Afghanistan? Dr. Griffith [C.]. (Type.) 



