Dr. J. E. Gray on the Chamseleonidse. 351 



convex centres, on the sides, and several series on the sides of the 

 belly, and two series on the sides of the tail. 

 Hab. S. Africa. Male and female. 



b. The back with a series of distant conical compressed scales ; tail 

 and belly not crested. Archaius. 



3. LoPHOSAURA Tigris. B.M. 



Chameleo Tigris, Gray, Cat. B. M. 268 ; A. Dum. Arch. duMus. 

 vi. t. 22. f. 3. 



Scales of temple, occiput, back, and limbs uniform, small, granular. 



In spirits, yellow, brown-spotted; spots sometimes confluent, form- 

 ing short longitudinal lines. 



Hab. Seychelles Islands. 



Chamceleo gutturalisy A. Smith, Append. Z. S. A. 3. 



" Back and tail surmounted with three rows of three-sided tuber- 

 cles ; body and tail covered with small scales and subconic tubercles ; 

 sides with two longitudinal rows of large subovate flat plates ; chin 

 and throat fringed longitudinally with long, small, thin, narrow and 

 pointed lobes of skin. Length 6| inches. 



''Hab. S. Africa. 



*' Distinguished from C.pumilus by the length of the lobes of the 

 guttural fringes, and their being smooth and destitute of granular 

 scales." 



We have no specimen of this genus which has the scaleless lobes 

 of the chin here described. 



Chamceleo tceniabronchus, A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. 1831, 



" Yellowish green, with two longitudinal buff stripes along each side, 

 and four or six smooth, oblong, jet-black stripes along the sides of the 

 throat, best seen when the animal inflates itself, or when the skin is 

 extended laterally ; occipital casque narrow, produced, armed above 

 with three dentated ridges, one on each side, and another along the 

 centre ; back with a ridge of short conical tubercles, inclined back- 

 wards ; chin and throat with a short, dentated longitudinal fringe ; 

 scales of the body small and granular ; temples divided longitudi- 

 nally by a dentated ridge. 



''Hab. Algoa Bay. One specimen, 4 5 inches long." 



7. Calumma. 

 Nose and chin simple ; orbits rounded. Occiput lozenge-shaped, 

 produced behind, and shelving on the sides, with very large flaps on 

 the hinder side edges. Back compressed, with a series of compressed 

 conical scales. Chin and belly rounded, not dentated, without any 

 line of conical scales (female) . 



1. Calumma cucullata. B.M. 



Chameleo cucullatus, Gray, Cat. B. M. 267. 

 Bradypodium cucullatumy Fitz. Syst. Kept. 43. 

 Hab. Madagascar. A single female specimen. 



