CORDYLUS CATAPHRACTUS.— Gray. 



Reptilia. — Plate XXIX. 



C. superne pallide flavo-brunneus, dorsi medio leviter viridi-tincto ; partibus inferioribus brunno-rubris 

 flavo nebulatis ; gula guttureque profunde brunneis flavo maculatis ; extremitatibus caudaque flavo- 

 brunneis. 



Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse 5 line. ; caudaj 7 unc. 



CORDYLUS CATAPHRACTUS, Gray. 



Cordylus maculosus, Smith, Magazine of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 31. 

 Zonurus cataphractus, Dura, and Bib. Erpetol. General, vol. v. fol. 355. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head and body interme- 

 diate between yellow and orange-coloured brown, darkest on the upper 

 surface of the head, particularly towards the nose, the middle of the back 

 faintly tinted with green. Tail and extremities clear yellowish brown. The 

 belly and under surface of tail dull brownish red, clouded with dirty light 

 yellow ; space between rami of lower jaw and also the throat umber-brown, 

 spotted with king's-yellow. 



Form, &c. — Head rather large and much depressed, its sides anteriorly 

 nearly perpendicular, posteriorly convex, and laterally very protuberant ; 

 neck narrower than the head ; body depressed and suhovate ; tail thick at 

 the base, acute at the point. The upper surface of the head is flat, the plates 

 covering it finely granular, and the shape of each will be best comprehended 

 from an examination of Plate XXX. figs. 9 and 9 a. The scales of the 

 temples are large, irregular-shaped, and tubercular, some of them almost 

 keeled, and the hinder ones, which overlap the external ear, are prolonged so 

 as to form acute spiny points. Labial scales of upper jaw six, the last three 

 tubercular and carinated; those of lower jaw five, the last two horizontally 

 compressed, thin and highly keeled. Nostrils near the apex of the muzzle 

 each small, circular and opening in the centre of the naso-nostral plate, which 

 is prominent and hemispherical. The sides and upper surface of the neck 



