i?18 Gen. Hardwickc unci Mr. Gray 



crest of simple compressed spines only extends from the occiput to 

 the middle of the buck ; tail nearly three times as long as the 

 body. 



Called Ghirgit in Calcutta. 



5. yi. viino7\ n. s. 



Brunnca obscure marmorala, infra pallida ; capitc brevi ; capitis 

 Cauda; membrorum abdominisque squauiis ovatis obtusis ; super- 

 ciliis carinatis; supra aurcs fasciculis 2 spinarum ; dorsi squamis 

 latissimis, obtuse carinatis ; crista, per totum dorsum, vix elcratil ; 

 caudil corpore brevioie. 



Var. capite dorsoque aspcrioribus. 



Inhabits Chittagong. Var. Mhcndy Ghat. Sandy plains. 



Length 6 inches; body 3{ ; tail 2-J. 



Brown, marbled with darker, and lower parts pale ; head 

 short; scales of head, tail, limbs, and belly, ovate, blunt; 

 oyc-broAvs keeled, with two bunches of spines over the ears; 

 scales of the back very broad, blunt, keeled ; the dorsal crest 

 scarcely raised, extending the length of the back. Tail two<thirds 

 the length of the body. From a drawing. 



The variety has the back and the head more spinous. 



♦** Head uniformlij scalij ; hack simple ; tail uniformlij scaly. 



6. A. tubcrclilala. n. s. 



Viridis flavo marmorata ct punctata ; squamis parvis ovatis, 

 Cauda; et membrorum externc majoribus, carinatis ; fcmoribus 

 scriebus 3 — 4 tuberculorum conicorum ; caudS, corpore duplo 

 longiore, basi incrassatil, apice attenuate. 



lnhabi(s India. 



Length 12 inches ; body and head four ; tail 8. 



Creen, marbled and speckled with yellow ; scales small ovate, 

 those of the tail and outer side of the limbs larger, keeled ; hinder 

 thighs, with three or four rows of conical tubercles behind ; tail 

 twice as long as the body, thick at the base, and tapering at the 

 end ; eyebrows keeled, smooth ; teeth simple conical. 



