CLASS REPTILIA, 



spinose, of head smooth and thin ; nape with a very obscure 

 crest, and bundle of short three-sided spines. Africa. 

 Mus. Brit. 



Common Agama. Agama Spinosa. Lac. Agama, Lin. ? 



Brown ; head moderate ; scales of back large, smooth ; of 

 limbs larger, keeled ; of belly moderate, nearly smooth ; nape 

 with a slight crest ; back of head and sides of neck with 

 blundle of long subulate scales. Africa. Brit. Mus. 



Sitana. Cuv. Semiphorus. Wag. 



Pondichery Sitana. Agama Pondicerana, Nob. 



Body and limbs with keeled imbricate scales ; fulvous with 

 two series of large rhombic brown spots. Male with very 

 large pouch extending to between the front legs. Hence the 

 genus Sitana, Cuvier, called Tropidosaura in Mus. Paris. 



h. Head rounded, depressed ; ears distinct ; hack with hand 

 of larger scales ; tail with whorled hands of large spinous 

 scales. Stellio. 



Common Stellio. Lac. Stellio, Lin. Stellio Vulgaris., Daud. 



Olive spotted with black. Rup. Atlas, f. 2. 



c. Head ovate lyrate ; ears distant ; hack and tail not 

 crested ; tail tapering, with imbricate scales. Trapelus. 



Cape Agama. Trapelus hispidus, Kaup. Iris. xx. t. 7- 

 Agama Orhicularis, Merr. ? Seba, j. t. 83. f. 1, 2. 



Scales unequal, with trihedral spinous scales. Cape. 



Yellow -striped Agama. Ag. Ater, Daud. Ag. Suhspinosa, 

 Gray, Ann. Phil. 1827. Trapelus Suhhispidus, Kaup. 



Brown, striped with a yellow dorsal line and red spot on 

 each side ; scales small ; of occiput large, ovate, smooth. 



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