CORDYLUS MICROLEriDOTUS. 



the centre of each scale being of the latter colour ; the upper surface of the 

 head anteriorly oil-green. The sides of the lips and body a light yellowish 

 emerald-green, and the latter is partially barred with a number of narrow pro- 

 longations of the dark colour of the back ; the sides of the neck with two 

 dark liver-brown spots, the anterior one waved, the hinder one vertical. Tail 

 pale liver-brown, irregularly spotted with sulphur-yellow ; belly livid greenish 

 yellow; legs and toes oil-green barred with liver-brown. Eyes deep reddish 

 brown. 



Female and young. — (Figs. B. and C.) — The upper surface of head and back 

 pale umber-brown, the sides of the former finely edged with pale oil-green, and 

 the discs of plates finely dotted with the same colour; the back variegated with 

 a number of small irregular pale oil-green spots. Sides intermediate between 

 oil-green and ochre yellow, and marked with several longitudinal lines of 

 small liver-brown spots ; sides of head yellowish hair-brown. Tail oil-green 

 mottled with somewhat square umber-brown spots ; extremities the same 

 colour as the sides and speckled with umber-brown spots. Belly straw yel- 

 low with a greenish tinge. Eyes deep reddish brown. 



Form, &c. — Head rather depressed and subtri angular, its upper surface 

 posteriorly level, and anteriorly sloped towards the nose ; its sides in front of 

 the eyes nearly perpendicular, behind them convex and bulged, particularly 

 posterior to the angles of the mouth ; the hinder edge of the temples armed 

 with two or three compressed tubercular looking scales, which project out- 

 wards and backward, and conceal more or less the external openings of the 

 ears. The forms of the plates and scales of the head vary a little in the 

 different varieties, and even in individuals of the same variety, as will be 

 seen on referring to Plate XXX.* The plates of the temples differ con- 

 siderably in size and configuration, being in some like scales, in others like 

 lengthened plates, and such variations are even exhibited by specimens 

 of the same variety. The neck and body like the head is somewhat de- 

 pressed, and the latter bulges considerably on each side. The skin of the 

 neck, particularly the portions which cover its side is loose, and more or less 

 folded or deeply wrinkled, and between these wrinkles are situated the very 



* Fig. 1, the upper surface of the head of specimen, figured Plate XXIV. 1 ; — 1 a, the side of the head 

 of ditto. Fig. 2, the upper surface of the head of specimen figured Plate XXIV. 2 ; — 2 a, the side of the 

 head of ditto ; — 2 b, femoral pores of ditto. Fig. 3, the upper surface of the head of specimen figured 

 Plate XXV. A ; — 3 a, the side of head of ditto; — 3 b, the femoral pores of ditto. Pig. 4. the upper surface 

 of the head of specimen figured Plate XXVI. A ; — t a, the side of head of ditto; — 4 b, the femoral pores 

 of ditto. 



