ORDER SAURIA. 1^7 



The species most common (^Lac CaloteSf L. Seb. I. 

 Ixxxix. % xciii. 2, xcv. 3, and 4 ; Daud. III. xliii. ; 

 Agama Ophiomachus, Merr.) is of a beautiful clear 

 blue, with white transverse marks on the sides, and 

 two ranges of spines behind the ears. It comes to 

 us from the East Indies. It is called cameleon at 

 the Moluccas, though it changes its colours but little. 

 Its eggs are spindle shaped.* 



LoPHYRUS. Dumeril. 



Have the scales of the body like the agama?, and a 

 crest of spangled scales still higher than that of the 

 calotes. Their tail is compressed, and they have no 

 pores in the thighs. 



* Add, Ag. Gutturosa, Merr., or Cristatilla, Kuhl, blue without bands, 

 and small scales on the back, Seb. I. Ixxxix. ; — Jg. Cristata, Merr, Seb. I. 

 xciii. 4, and II. Ixxvi. 5, reddish brown, with scattered, blackish brown 

 spots, of which the Agame Arkquime, Daud. III. xliv., is the young ; — Ag, 

 Vultuoso, Harl. nat. sc. Philad. IV. xix. All these species come from the 

 East Indies. The Loj^hyrus Ochrocollaris, et Margaritaceus, Spix, xii. are 

 calotes of America. The first is the same as the Agama Picta of Pr. Max. 

 The Loioh. Panthera, Spix, pi. xxiii. f. 1, is the young. Add to these 

 American calotes Loph. Rhombifer, Spix, xi. whose Lophyrus Albomaxilla' 

 ris, id. xxiii. f. 2, is the young;— Loph. Auronitens, sp. pi. xiii. 



We may separate from the other calotes a species of Cochin-China, with 

 smooth back without apparent scales, with belly, limbs, and tail covered 

 with carinated scales. {Cal. Leiyidogaster, Nob.) ; the Ag. Catenata, Pr. 

 Max , fifth book, may belong to this group. 



N.B. We must remark that the artist of Seba has given to most of his 

 iguanas, agama, and calotes, extensible and forked tongues, altogether 

 from his own imagination. 



