1864. | DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE CHAMZLEONID. 475 
Scales of body and limbs moderate, unequal, with one or two series 
of large scales on the sides; sides of occiput and temples covered 
with flat scales. 
In spirits, bluish, with a white streak from the orbit to the 
shoulder, and from the temples along the sides of the back. 
Hab. South Africa; Cape of Good Hope. 
Var. fordii. Scales larger, more acute; tubercles on the side of 
the back large, elongate, keeled ; throat-fringe elongate, covered with 
acute scales ; scales of belly small, equal. 
Hab. 8. Africa, on branches of underwood ; from Haslar Hospital. 
Trup sutchees of the Cape Colonist ; that is, “Tread lightly.”’ 
2. LopHOSAURA VENTRALIS. B.M. 
Chameleo ventralis, Gray, Cat. B. M. 268. 
C. pusillus, var.?, A. Smith, 8. A. Zool. App. 2; A. Dum. J. c. 261. 
Scales small, with three or four series of large, flat, oval scales, with 
convex centres, on the sides, and several series on the sides of the 
belly, and two series on the sides of the tail. 
Hab. 8. Africa. Male and female. 
Lophosaura ventralis. 
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. du Mus. 
Wie bo 225 tis: 
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. 
Chameleo gutturalis, 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 62 inches. 
“* Hab. S. Africa. 
* Distinguished from C. pumi/us by the length of the lobes of the 
