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ORDER II. SAUR.E. 



Fam. 1. AoAMiDiE. 

 Gen. 1. Agama. 



*. Head almost uniformly scaly; back crested^ tail cowpressedy 

 with tzoo or more series of long scales beneath. 



1. A. superciliosa. 



Viridis, squamis uniformibus ; supra dorsum tuberculis conicis 

 raris brunneo-annulatis; superciliis elevatis carinatis ; Cauda 

 corpore duplo longiore, infra plana, squamarum sericbus duabus. 

 Lacerta superciliosa. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 360. 4. 

 Scutated Lizard. Shazo^ Zool. iii. t. 68. 

 Lophyre a casque fourchu. Lacerta Scutata. Cuv. Regne 



Aninu ii. ^d. — not Linn. i. 360. 5. 

 Agama tigrina. Merrem, Repf. i. 50. 4. but not Syn. 



which belong to A. cristuta. Merrem. lb. 50. 3. 

 Lopliyrus Gigas. Boic, Bull. Sci. Nat. ix. 235. 

 Agama gigantea. Kuhl, Beitr. 106. 

 Icon. Seba, Thesaurus, \.t. 100. f. 2. Copied Shazc, Zool. 

 iii. t. 68. low. fig. 

 Inhabits Bencoolen. 

 Length 12 inches; body 4~ ; tail 7j. 



Green ; eyebrows elevated, keeled ; tail nearly twice as long 

 as the body, beneath flat, with two series of long slender double 

 pointed keeled scales. Scales uniform, small, with a few scat- 

 tered conical tubercles on the back, each surrounded by a brown 

 ring; teeth recurved, cut in behind. 



2. A. armata. n. s. 



Pallida, brunneo-inarmorata; squamis lanceolatis carinatis; spinis 

 trihedris raris supra dorsum ct membra; superciliis carinatis, 

 squamarum serie laevi in spinam longam postice desinente ; dorso 

 serie spinarum gracilium cristato ; caudi seriebus pluribus squa- 

 marum longiirum tetragonarum. 



inhabits Singapore. 



