1878.] COL. R. H. BEDDOME ON A NEW TREE-LIZARD. 153 



Rhyparida nigricollis, P. Z.S. 1877, p. 513. 



These three species, described by me under the generic name of 

 Rhyparida, belong, as subsequent studies have convinced me, to the 

 genus Syagrus of C'hapuis. 



8. Description of a new Genus of Tree-Lizards from the 

 higher Ranges of the Anamallays. By Lieut. -Colonel 

 R. H. Beddome, C.M.Z.S. 



[Received January 12, 1878.] 

 (Plate XIV.) 



Lophosalea, nov. gen. 



Gen. Char. No femoral pores, no lateral wings, tympanum naked; 

 crest of the back and anterior portion of the tail very high, the lobes 

 separate ; scales of the back and sides large, irregular, imbricate, sub- 

 equal in size, but mixed with a few small scales, strongly keeled, the 

 tips directed backwards ; a few trihedral or spinous scales above the 

 tympanum ; a large gular sac ; tail of moderate length, very much 

 compressed ; all the scales keeled, the lower ones very prominently. 



Lophosalea anamallayana, sp. nov. (Plate XIV.) 



Three large scales between the base of the orbit and the top of 

 the tympanum ; the last of which is much raised and subtrihedral ; 

 a spine behind the tympanum, and another between it and the 

 commencement of the nuchal crest ; crown of head concave ; the 

 rostral shield is subvertical and over the first labial only (not hori- 

 zontal and over the first and second labials as in Salea) a few large 

 trihedral scales form a semicircle across the occipital region in front 

 of the nuchal crest ; seven or eight upper labials, the last very small ; 

 seven lower labials ; tympanum large ; eye rather small, eyelid large 

 and scaly as in Salea ; longitudinal series of quadrangular scales on 

 each side of the gular sac, nuchal crest composed of two small and 

 four large scales, the interspace between this and the dorsal crest 

 very small and occupied by three small crest-scales ; the dorsal and 

 subcaudal crest is composed of twenty-eight large thin erect some- 

 what crimped scales one half an inch in length, and extends along 

 more than one half the length of the tail. Head much narrowed 

 in front, somewhat elongate and pointed as in Cophotis ; the hind leg, 

 if laid forward, only reaches the shoulder ; toes with carinated trans- 

 verse plates below, the third and fourth toes are very long, the 

 fourth being a little the longer ; length of body 4| inches, of tail 7\ 

 inches ; colour of body fawn with irregular transverse bars of white, 

 edged and intermixed with black, three across the body and eight 

 across the tail, a white band along the labials and from the angle of 

 the mouth to the shoulder ; belly white. 



Hab. Anamallay Mountains, 6000 feet — a very rare lizard. 



