CORDYLUS GIGANTEUS. 



Reptilia.— Plates XXXV., XXXVI. 



C. flavo-brunneus inferne pallidior, dorso cauda. superne extremitatibusque supern& fusco-nebulatis ; 

 occipite, temporibusque postice spinis fortibus triangularibus in ordine singula armatis ; dorsi 

 squamis leviter carinatis, laterium fortiter spinosis ; cauda superne spinosissima ; extremitatibus 

 anterioribus inferne squamis tuberculosis ; poribus femoralibus decern. 



Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse, 8 unc. Cauda?, 7 unc. 



Colour.— The upper surface of the head posterior to the eyes, deep 

 umber brown, anteriorly, towards nose, dark yellowish brown ; the temples, 

 posteriorly, of the former colour, anteriorly, yellowish brown ; the lips and 

 throat intermediate between sienna and straw-yellow ; the sides of the lower 

 jaw freckled yellowish brown. The back, sides of body, tail, and extremities, 

 intermediate between sienna and honey-yellow, the tint on the back and 

 upper surface of the tail darkest, and particularly towards and on the 

 line of the spine, irregularly clouded with umber brown ; the extremities are 

 also more or less shaded or clouded with the same colour. Belly wine 

 yellow ; the scales in front of femoral pores, yellowish brown. Eyes 

 reddish brown. Claws, umber-brown. 



Form, &c— Figure robust, and aspect rugged and repulsive. Head 

 rather fiat, broad, and posteriorly bulging ; the upper surface, behind eyes, 

 nearly even, — before eyes, slightly convex, and in both places covered with 

 very hard rough plates, those towards nose subtubercular ; superciliary 

 plates seven on each side, disposed in rows of threes, with the seventh 

 placed behind them ; the plates of the internal row largest, and with the 

 exception of the seventh, are smooth and without striae ; nostrils cylindrical, 

 and situated towards the hinder extremity of the nasal plates ; labial plates 

 small, eight above and five below, the last of the lower lip and the three last of 



