458 



CHAM^LEOXTID^. 



covered with small scales and subconical tubercles ; sides Tvith two 

 longitudinal rows of large, subovate, flat plates ; chin and throat 

 fringed longitudinally with long, smooth, thin, narrow, and pointed 

 lobes of skin. Length 0^ inches. This species, which is nearly- 

 allied to C. ptimilus, is readily distinguished by the length of the 

 lobes forming the guttural fringe, and their being smooth and 

 destitute of granular scales," 

 South Africa. 



21. Chamgeleon taeniohronchus. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 



Chamaileo tseniabronchus, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Joitrn. no. 5, 1831, 

 p. 17, and III. S. Afr., Rept., App. p. o. 



Differs from C. 'pvmWus, with which it agrees in all other 

 respects, in having the gular crest formed of small, more conical 

 lobules covered with scales or granules, and in the absence of a 

 lateral series of enlarged tubercles, these tubercles being reduced to 

 one on one side and two on the other. "Pour or six jet-black 

 stripes along the sides of the throat." 



Prom snout to vent Q2 millim., tail 55. 



South Africa. 



a. $ . Near Algoa Bay. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 



22. Chamseleon pnmilus. 



Chamseleo purailus, Gray, Cat. p. 2G9. 

 Chamfieleo pumihis, Datid. Hept. iv. p. '2\2, pi. liii. ; Kavp, Isis, 1825, 



p. 592 ; I)um. ^- Bibr. iii. p. 217 ; A. Dum. Arch. Miis. vi. pi. xxii. 



fig. 5. 

 Chanifeleon margaritaceus, 3Ierr. Tent. p. 1G2. 

 Bradypodion piimilum, Fitziiig. Syst. Mept. p. 43. 

 Lophosaura pumila, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 474. 



Casque feebly elevated, narrow and pointed posteriorly, not very 

 distinct from the body, especially in the females ; the distance 

 between the commissure of the mouth and the extremity of the 

 casque hardly equals the length of the mouth ; no rostral append- 

 ages ; crests (a lateral, an occipital, and a temporal intersecting 

 the temporal region) low, covered with large convex tubercles ; no 

 occipital lobes ; temporal scales large and flat. Scales on back and 

 sides granular, unequal, intermixed with enlarged round or oval 

 flat tubercles, the largest of which form a series along each side : a 

 crest of isolated conical tubercles extends along the back and tail ; 

 ventral scales subequal, no ventral crest; throat with enlai'ged flat 

 tubercles: a series of long, compressed, often denticulated, lobules 

 covered with flat granules or scales, extends along the throat ; these 

 gular lobules constantly longer than broad. No tarsal process. 

 Tail as long as, or a little shorter than, head and body in the males, 

 shorter in the females ; none of the tubercles on the tail equal in 

 size the largest ones on the sides of the body. 



