1. CHAMELEON, 443 



B. Snout ending in a single compressed appendage. 



Rostral appendage pointed, rigid (?) ; a 



large dermal occipital flap 42. melleri, p. 472. 



Eostral appendage rounded, soft ; no 



occipital flap 43. nasutus, p. 473. 



Rostral appendage long, pointed, soft ; 



no occipital flap 44. f/allus, p. 473. 



1. Chamaeleon vulgaris. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Chanifeleo vulgaris, part.. Gray, Cat. p. 265. 

 Lacerta chainjeleon, part., Liyiti. S. N. i. p. 3G4. 

 ? Cbanialeo parisiensium. Law. Syn. Rept. p. 4-j. 

 Chamajleo zeylanicus, Law. I. c. p. 46. 

 ■ vulgaris, Baud. Rept. iv. p. 181 ; Dum. (^- Bibr. iii. p. 204 



(var. A) ; A. Dam. Arch. Mus, vi. pi. xxii. tig. 1. 

 Caraeleon trapu, Geoffr. Descr. Eyypte, Rept. p. 134, pi. iv. 



tig. 3. 

 Chamaeleo africanus, Kuhl, Reitr. Zool. Veryl. Anat. p. 104 ; Guerin, 



Icon. R. A., Rept. pi. xv. fig. 1 ; Schley, in Wagn. Reis. iii. 



p. 111. 

 Chamteleon cariuatus, Men-. Tent. p. 162. 



subcroceu.-^, Men: J. c. 



? Chamaeleo siculus, Grohmann, N. Descr. d. Camel, sic, 1832. 

 Chamseleon rimulo.'Urs, Fitziny, Syst. Rept. p. 42. 



hispanicus, Fitziny. I. c. 



Chamaeleo cinereus, Strauch, Erp. Aly. p. 21. 



Chamseleon vulgaris, part.. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 469. 



am'atus, Gray, I. c. 



fasciatus, J. A. Smith, Proc. Phys. Soc. Edinb, iii. 1866, 



p. 306. 



vulgaris, var. recticrista, Boetty, Ber, Senckenb. Ges, 1879-80, 



p. 198. 

 — sp., F. Mail, Verh. Nat. Ges. Basel, vii. 1885, p. 715, pi. xi. 



Casque raised posteriorly, with strong curved parietal crest ; the 

 distance between the commissure of the mouth and the extremity of 

 the casque nearly equals the leugth of the mouth ; no rostral appen- 

 dages : a strong lateral crest, becoming indistinct as it ascends 

 towards the extremity of the parietal crest ; a small but very 

 distinct occipital lobe on each side, extending to the extremity of 

 the parietal crest. Xo enlarged tubercles among the granules of the 

 body ; no dorsal crest ; a more or less distinct series of conical scales 

 on the anterior part of the vertebral keel ; a series of conical, slightly 

 enlarged granules on the median line of the throat ; no ventral 

 crest. Xo tarsal process. Tail usually a little shorter than head 

 and body in the Western specimens, a little longer in the Eastern. 

 A white line from chin to vent ; usually two or three series of pale 

 spots along each side. 



