CORDYLUS FASCIATUS.— Smith. 



Reptilia. Plate XXVII. Fig. I. 



C. supeme nigro-brunneus, dorso maculis flavis fere confluentis in ordinibus transversis variegato ; cauda 

 superne flavo-maculata ; gulit livido-caerulea ; gutture ventreque viridi-flavis ; cauda inferne sub- 

 flava ; capitis lateribus postice squamis tribus tuberculosis armatis, super aurem externam porrectis. 

 Longitcdo e naso ad basin caudae 4 unc. 4 lin.; caudse 5 unc. 2 lin. 



Cordylus (pseudocordylus) fasciatus, Smitb, Mag. of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 32. 

 Cordylds microlepidotus, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. General, torn. v. p. 361. 



Colour, &c. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, the hack, the sides 

 and the upper and lateral parts of the tail liver-brown, with ochreous or 

 cream-yellow variegations, the liver-brown lightest on the head. The yellow 

 variegations of the upper surface of the head consist of narrow, irregular, 

 broken stripes, principally on the sides towards the nose ; on the neck and 

 back they are in the form of quadrangular spots, disposed in transverse 

 rows, varying in each from eight to ten in number; on the sides the yellow 

 occurs as a waved longitudinal line, and on the tail it is in large, irregular- 

 shaped, spots arranged in two rows, one row along each upper angle. 



Form, &c. — Head rather large, neck narrower than the hind head, body 

 rather bulky and subcylindrical ; the tail depressed at the base, and cylindrical 

 near the point. The upper surface of the head flat and faintly rugose, the 

 shape of the plates represented in Plate XXX., Fig. 5. The sides of the head 

 before the angles of the mouth nearly perpendicular, and the temples convex and 

 bulging ; the posterior edge of each armed with three tubercular and somewhat 

 pointed scales (Plate XXX. fig. 5a), which project outwards and backwards over 

 the external ear ; the other scales on the temples of two descriptions, those 

 towards the centre large, flat, and irregular, in form ; those around the edges 

 small, granular, and somewhat keeled. Scales of the upper lip six in number, 

 not reckoning the rostral one ; the hindermost somewhat keeled, those of the 



