19. AGA.MA. 363 



Total length. . 212 millim. Fore limb 40 millim. 



Head 19 „ Hind limb 63 „ 



Width of head 17 „ Tail 134 „ 



Body 59 „ 



Himalayas. 



a-d. c?, ?, & yg. Tibet. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



e, Yg. Balti, Tibet. Messrs. v. Schlagintweit [C.]. 



35. Agama agrorensis. 



Stellio agrorensis, Stoliczka, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 128 ; 

 Blanf. 27id Yark. Miss., Rept. pi. i. fig. 3, 



Head much depressed ; snout longer than the diameter of the 

 orbit ; nostril lateral, below the canthus rostralis. Upper head-scales 

 keeled ; occipital not enlarged ; small spinose scales on the sides of 

 the head near the ear, and on the neck ; ear entirely exposed, larger 

 than 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 of the back very small, almost granular, 

 keeled, those on the vertebral region and on the flanks enlarged, 

 rhomboidal, imbricate, strongly keeled ; a very slight indication of 

 nuchal denticulation ; ventral scales smooth, much smaller than the 

 enlarged dorsals. Limbs and tail as in A. tuherculata . Male with 

 a patch of anal pores and a double longitudinal row of pores on the 

 middle of the belly. Olive above, spotted with yellow (sometimes 

 with dark and light longitudinal bands) ; the male's throat reticu- 

 lated with grey. 



From snout to vent 92 millim. 



Punjab and Kachmere. 



a. c? . Agror Valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



36. Agama melanura. .>02?-^*^ 



Laudakia (Plocederma) melanura, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 



1854, p. 737. 

 tuberculata {non Gray), Theob. Cat. Rent. As. Soc. Mus. 1868, 



p. 38. 

 Stellio melanurus, Anders. Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, p. 189; 



Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 113, and P-oc. As. 



Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 129. 



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 



