CORDYLUS MICROLEPIDOTUS. 



Reptilia.— Plates XXIV. XXV. and XXVI. 



C. dorso maculis flavis in ordinibus transversis ornato ; cauda superne flavo-variegata ; cervice, dorso, 

 lateribusque squamia parvis plus minusve carinatis et in seriebus transversis, ordinatis ; cauda superne 

 squamis carinatis spinosis armata ; poris fernoralibus verrucosis in ordinibus duabus aut tribus dis- 

 positis. 



Cordulus microlepidotus, Cuv. Reg. Animal. 2d Edit. vol. ii. f. 33. 



Cordylus MONTANUS, — melanotus, — Algoensis, — et subviridis, Smitb, Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 vol. ii. page 32. 



(Var. Fig. A. Plate XXIV.) 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head clear brownish red, the 

 former marked with a longitudinal narrow line of a pale reddish orange colour 

 over each eye; the sides of the head in front of the eyes and the lips pale brown- 

 ish yellow. The upper surface of the back and the tail livid brownish red, 

 the former variegated with short transverse stripes or spots of an ochre-yellow 

 colour, so disposed as to form several broken bands ; — between the hinder legs 

 and on the neck immediately behind the head the bands are sometimes continu- 

 ous ; the sides of the upper surface of the tail are sparingly mottled with 

 short, narrow, yellow streaks, and a band of the same colour is often observed 

 extending from the side of the neck and arching over the base of each fore-; 

 leg. The sides of the body intermediate between gall-stone and ochre- 

 yellow, and vertically barred by several triangular prolongations of the dark 

 colour of the back, which in some specimens reach to the margin of the abdo- 

 men ; the sides and under-surface of the tail gamboge-yellow,— the former 

 marked with many narrow vertical liver-brown bars. Belly and under surface 

 of extremities intermediate between gamboge and sienna-yellow ; upper sur- 

 face of extremities pale gamboge-yellow irregularly barred with reddish- 

 brown. The sides of the neck with two distinct and more or less vertical 

 spots of a darker colour than the back, and the space between the rami of the 

 lower jaw is a livid blue. Eyes chesnut brown. 



(Var.— Fig. B. Plate XXIV.) 

 Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the temples chesnut-brown ; 

 the back orange-coloured brown variegated with transverse bars of quadran- 



