1872.] Stoliczha, on Kachh Beptiles. 77 



Pale brown, darker above, and each scale generall}^ with a blackish dot ; 

 head, above, and feet distinctly yellow, and the pale whitish underside more 

 or less tinged with yellow. Length of a specimen 4*5, head and body 

 being 2*9 ; fore-limb 0*25, hind-limb 0"6 inches. 



10. SiTANA POIS-TICEEIANA. 

 Comp. J. A. S. B., 1872, xli, p. 108. 



I refer under this name to the species with unequal scales on the side 

 of the body. It is very common between low brushwood throughout Kachh. 



The specimens perfectly agree in structure and colour with those from 

 Central India, 'N. W. Provinces and the Panjab, and I also got similar spe- 

 cimens in the Dakhin at Puna. My largest specimen (out of several hun- 

 dreds of all sizes) measures 7'5 inches, of which head and body are only tw^o. 

 The hind leg sometimes only extends a little beyond the eye, in other speci- 

 mens it reaches somewhat beyond the snout, but in the young often half an 

 inch beyond it. Not in a single specimen does the fore-limb reach the vent, 

 generally only to the groin, when laid back. 



11. Calotes veesicoloe, (I. P., p. 140). 



Very common, and the only species of this genus I met with. As usually, 

 the colours are very variable. In full grown specimens (abovit 15-16 inches) 

 the scales at the side of the body are often twice as wide as those on the 

 belly, and the keels become nearly obsolete on the former. 



Large specimens are usually fulvous brown, on the anterior part of the 

 body tinged with red ; the posterior part has blackish confluent spots, which 

 are also well marked on the tail ; throat reddish, neck below and at the sides 

 bluish, lips often blackish ; cheeks very much swollen, as in Charasia. 



• 12. Peachy SAUEA oenata, Blyth. 

 Jonrn. A. S. B., xxv, p. 448. — Gunther, Ind, Rept,, p. 161. 

 Jerdon, Proc. A. S. B., 1870, p. 78. 



Blyth's description of this remarkable lizard,* though brief, is so char- 

 acteristic, that the species could hardly be mistaken for anything else. I 

 have obtained five specimens of various sizes. 



Exactly as Blyth says, it is a Calotes with enormous head, this being 

 short and blunt, moderately concave above, with the superciliary ridges 

 strongly projecting ; body stout and thick, tail thick at base, rapidly attenu- 

 ating towards the end, shorter or equal in length to the body. 



Head above covered with largish, irregular, keeled shields, a roset- 



like group of slightly larger ones being noticeable in the middle of the occiput, 



and two other similar groups are placed little posteriorly on either side ; two 



groups of spines above the tympanum, each with one principal spine ; some en- 



* The only type specimen appears to have been lost. 



