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Calotes versicolor, Daud. ; Gthr. /. c. p. 140. 

 Darjeeling, 3800 to 4000 feet. 

 Calotes maria, Gray ; Gthr. I. e. pp. 144, 145. 

 Garo Hills. 



Calotes mystaceus, D. & B. ; Gthr. I. c. p. 141. 

 Garo Hills. 



Oreotiaris tricarinata. 



Calotes tricarinatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. xxii. p. G50. 

 Tiaris elliotti, Gthr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G0, p. 151, pi. xxv. 

 fig. B. 



Oriotiaris elliotti, Gthr. Ind. Eept. p. 150. 

 ? Calotes tricarinatus, Blyth; Gthr. Ind. Rept. p. 144. 

 I have compared Blyth's type of C. tricarinatus with Gunther's 

 figure arid description of T. elliotti, and can detect nothing by which 

 to separate them. My specimen was from an elevation of G000 feet 

 in the neighbourhood of Darjeeling. The type and the latter 

 measure:- Total length. Tail, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



5 9 4 



5 6 3 8 



Tiaris subcristata, Blyth ; Gthr. 1. c. p. 151. 



Stoliczka has given a full description of this Lizard and of its 

 variations, and has pointed out that it^is identical with Fitzin°-er's 

 Coryphophylax maximiliani as adopted by Steindachner in his 

 • Reptiles of the Novara Expedition.' 



It is an arboreal Lizard common in the Andamans, and more so 

 in the Nicobars. Dr. Stoliczka has examined 100 specimens from 

 the latter locality, and finds them, as already said, to be identical 

 with those from the Andamans. 



Uromastix hardavickii, Gray. 



I quite agree with the remarks which have fallen from Mr. Theo- 

 bald* regarding the systematic position which had been assigned to 

 the genera Uromastix, Liolepis, and Phrynocej)halus before lie pro- 

 posed to group them under one very natural family, the Uro- 

 masticidse. 



This appears to be a very common Lizard in the dry district of 

 Agra, and also throughout the Punjab and Scind, in all of which 

 localities they are esteemed as an article of food. 



Mr. Theobald gives some interesting observations on its habits. 

 It is a ground- Lizard, burrowing in sandy soil, and of a very gentle 

 and placid disposition, and herbivorous. He observed that it never 

 left its burrow till the sun was up, and that it grazed in front of it 

 for some hours, and retreated during the intense heat of the mid- 

 day sun. In the evening they reappear, and finally retire as the dark 

 * Cat. of Eeptiles in the Mus. As. Soc. Bengal, 1868, p. 39. 



