454 CHAM^LEONTID^. 



14. Chainseleon verrucosus. 



Cliamseleo verrucosus, Gray, Cat. p. 267, 

 Chamreleo verrucosus, Cuv. R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. GO ; Ditm. Sf Bihr. 



iii. p. 210, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 ; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 468; 



Boettg. Ahh. Nafurw. Ver. Bremen, vii. 1881, •^. 1%2, and Ahh. 



Se7ick. Ges. xii. 1881, p. 477. 

 Bradypodion verrucosum, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 43. 



Casque much elevated posteriorly, especially in the male, with 

 strong curved parietal crest ; the distance between the commissure 

 of the mouth and the extremity of the casque equals or exceeds the 

 length of the mouth in the male, is a little less in the female ; 

 snout rather long and pointed, without appendages ; a strong lateral 

 crest, ascending to the extremity of the parietal crest ; no trace 

 whatever of occipital lobes ; scales on the head very unequal, some 

 very large round ones on the occiput and on the temple. Body 

 covered with granules intermixed with scattered large, round, flat, 

 or subconical tubercles, of which there is often a lateral series of 

 specially large ones ; a crest of pointed tubercles on the vertebral 

 line ; a series of conical tubercles forms a feeble crest along the 

 throat and belly, interrupted under the neck. N'o tarsal process 

 Tail as long as, or a little longer than, head and body. 



millim. 



Total length 505 



From end of snout to extremity of mandible . . 55 



From end of snout to extremitj' of casque .... 74 



Greatest width between lateral cranial crests . . 32 



Depth of skull (mandible included) 55 



Width of head 35 



Body 180 



Tibia 38 



Tail 270 



Madagascar, Bourbon, Mauritius. 



a, b, c-d. c? & hgr. 5 . Madagascar. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



e.(S- Mauritius. C. Telfair, Esq. [C.]. 



15, ChamaDleon pardalis, 



Chamajleo pardalis. Gray, Cat. p. 260. 



Chamseleo pardalis, Cuv. R. A. 2nd ed. ii. p. 00; Ihim. 8f Bibr. iii. 

 p. 228 ; Boettg. Abh. Senck. Ges. xi. 1877, p. 25, pi. i, fig. 5, and 

 1878, p. 281, and 187!», p. 482, and xii. 1881, p. 478, 



ater. Lesson, III. Zool. pi. xxxiv. 



Bradypodion pardalis, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 43. 



Cyneosaura pardalis, Gray, Proc Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 479. 



Casque broad and rounded and not much elevated posteriorly ; 

 a strong parietal crest ; the distance between the commissure of the 

 mouth and the extremity of the casque is less than the length of the 

 mouth ; lateral crest distinct all round the head, formed of large 



