382 DR. J. ANDERSON ON PERSIAN, [Mar. 5, 



than any I have met with on this side of India, constituting a well- 

 marked western race. 



Calotes mystaceus, D. & B. 



I hare received twelve examples of this species from Cherra 

 Punji. 



Calotes maria, Gray. 



This is not an uncommon species in the Khasya Hills. The 

 body of the largest specimen in the museum from that locality 

 measures from snout to vent 5 inches ; the tail is unfortunately 

 broken ; but in another individual measuring in body 4 - 8 inches, 

 the tail is 14| inches long. The elbow, knee, and heel are marked 

 with white ; and a white line runs along the outside of the fourth 

 toe. The back in the largest specimen is ornamented by eleven 

 transverse white bands intermixed with reddish ; they extend only 

 a short way on to the sides. They are continued on to the tail, 

 where they ultimately resolve themselves into pairs of whitish 

 spots, distributed at regular intervals. 



Hab. Cherra Punji, Khasi Hills. 



Calotes jerdoni, Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 779, 

 pi. xlv. fig. A. 



I have received three specimens of this handsome species, ob- 

 tained at Cherra Punji. A male and a female have a pale red 

 band along the back and on to the base of the tail, and two rows of 

 white spots at regular intervals on the sides between the fore and 

 hind limbs. The other specimen is uniformly coloured green. 



Charasia dorsalis, Gray. 



This species occurs as far east as the Rajmahal Hills ; and Blan- 

 ford has found it sixty miles west of Raipur, and, he believes, also 

 on the Godavery. 



In the young the scales of the under surface are all markedly 

 keeled ; but this character is soon all but lost, although traces of it 

 may be detected in adult examples. The cross-rowed character of 

 the scales of the tail is not so marked as on the body, but it can be 

 distinctly detected, although they are imbricate in both localities. 



Stellio persicus, n. sp. (Fig. 4, p. 383.) 



The middle line of the back from between the shoulders covered 

 with eight to nine longitudinal rows of very small, rounded, keeled 

 scales of different sizes, those along the vertebral line very small. 

 All the surface external to this, including the sides, very finely 

 granular, with interspersed large granules, chiefly in the axillar region, 

 no scattered spines on the sides. There is a square area on the 

 middle of the sides, covered with enlarged keeled scales of different 

 sizes, arranged more or less in irregularly transverse series. The 

 largest scales are roundly oval, with a rather strong tubercular-like 



