82 Stoliczlca^ on Kaclili Bcjytlles. [Mat, 



general colour was green, brighter on the head and changuig to brown 

 about the eyes, yellowish at the sides of the belly. Several dark yellow 

 streaks radiated from the eye ; of two streaks, originating at the hind- 

 edge of the eye, the upper proceeded to the posterior end of the crest, and 

 there was also a yellow streak from the lower edge of the eye very conspi- 

 cuous ; numerous small yellow spots on the back, extending on the sides ; from 

 neck to sacral region were eight transverse pale greenish bands visible, edged 

 with bright yellow, and alternating with several whitish, irregularly placed, 

 spots at the sides ; tail with indistinct transverse bands ; labials from below the 

 eye to the angle of the mouth whitish ; lower crest pure white. I have not 

 noticed any longitudinal lateral bands. This colouration clearly exhibits some 

 differences from the one generally given of the African Cli. vulgaris, and I 

 am inclined to r<3tain the two as distinct species. One female, the body of 

 which measures 5*5 and the tail 6*25 inches, had on 3rd November twentj^-two 

 eggs, each 0*8 of an inch long and a little more than 0*4 inch thick. 

 Another female with the body 4*2 inch, had only eleven eggs. In spirits the 

 general colour of the body turns in time to uniform grass green. 

 The chameleon is called sdsamha by the natives. 



OFJSIDIA. 



19. Typiilops braminus, Daud. (see J. A. S. B., xl, 1871, p. 425). 



20. Zamenis yentrimaculatus, Gray, (Ind. Kept. p. 253). 



Not a common species ; it is found on the ground between brush-wood. 

 The anterior frontals are in Kachh specimens generally considerably smaller 

 than the posterior, and the ante-ocular does not alwa^^s reach the vertical. 



The very young snake (about 8 inches long) has the head remarkably 

 pointed, the rostral shield being projecting in front and flattened above ; the 

 two pairs of frontals are nearly equal. In one specimen there are portions 

 of the fourth and fifth labials detached, forming a third long ante- or 

 rather sub-ocular. The back has along the centre a distinct yellowish white 

 band, interrupted by somewhat broader blackish spots. The other dark 

 spots are only indicated. 



In the adult the bands on top of head are sometimes quite indistinct 5 

 and are represented by irregular marblings ; the cross dark bands become less 

 distinct on the posterior part of the body and entirely disappear on the tail ; 

 the dark spots at the sides of the ventrals are occasionally scarcely traceable, 

 while the angle of the same shields is usually indicated by a thin dark line 

 and the colour between the two lines is bluish or pale ashy white, but it is 

 pm-e white, or yellowish white, at the sides of the ventrals. In one specimen, 

 measuring 36 inches, I count 208 ventrals and 118 subcaudals. 



21. Zamenis diadema, Schleg. (Ind. Eep. p. 252). 



Common throughout Kachh, particularly about the towns and villages. 



