v.— D E vS C R T P T I O N OF A NEW SPECIES OF 



E I Z A R D OF THE GENUS S A L E A 



FROM ASSAM. 



By N. Annandale, D.Sc, Superintendent, Indian Museum. 



The range of the genus Salea was thought until recently to be 

 confined (with a possible extension into Ceylon) to Southern India, 

 where two species (5. horsfieldii and S. anamaUayana) occur. In 

 my " Notes on the Oriental Eizards in the Indian Museum " {loc. 

 post, cit., p. 8i), however, I recorded two specimens from North- 

 Eastern India, one collected by the late Dr. Stoliczka at Moulmein 

 in Lower Burma and one by Col. Godwin Austen in North Assam. 

 The former specimen, a female, agrees in every respect with exam- 

 ples of S. horsfieldii from the Nilgiris, but the latter must, I now 

 think, be recognized as the type of a new species, which is here 

 described. 



Salea austeniana, sp. nov. 



5. horsfieldii, Gray. Annandale (partim), Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, 1905, p. 86. 



Habit rather stout, the adpressed hind limb reaching the 

 anterior border of the orbit ; tail compressed. Tympanum about 

 half as large as the orbit, its distance from which is distinctly 

 less than the length of the snout ; width of the orbit a little less 

 than the length of the snout ; canthus rostralis and superciliary 

 ridge angular ; snout slightly concave above, sloping. A curved 

 fold covered with granular scales in front of the shoulder ; scales 

 on the back and sides of diverse sizes, bluntly pointed, occasionalh^ 

 split at the tip, rather feebly keeled, relatively broad ; ventrals 

 triangular, without a terminal spine, feebly keeled, strongly im- 

 bricate ; gulars smooth, no larger than some of the ventrals ; 

 scales on the upper surface of the limbs and the lower surface of the 

 tail strongh' keeled. Dorsal and nuchal crests continuous, con- 

 sisting of a single row of scales (in the female) which are lanceolate 

 on the neck and triangular on the body, continued on the tail as a 

 slightly serrated ridge. Colour dull green mottled on the sides with 

 brown and diversified on the head with the following markings : 

 a narrow longitudinal line between the eyes that bifurcates in 

 front and behind, the anterior bifurcation forming the two posterior 

 sides of a lozenge in outline on the snout, and the posterior one the 

 two equal sides of an isosceles triangle on the back of the vertex ; 

 two slanting-shaped lines on the supraocular regions, one on each 

 side ; a dark streak extending from the lower posterior limit of the 



