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Jerdon 1. c. points out that as the smaller race was the type of 

 Pondiceriana the term minor is iuapplicable for the larger race, 

 and suggests Dekkanensis, but the balance of opinion of both 

 Stoliczka and Blanford is in favor of regarding these forms as 

 mere local races and not as distinct species. 



DiLOPHTRUS, Oray. 



Back and sides covered with equal, minute, granular scales, 

 A very high nuchal and dorsal crest, the lobes of which are 

 united by a membrane. Gular sack small. Tail compressed, 

 very long. 



D. grandis. Gray. 



D. grandis Gray, Cantor. J. A. S., B., 1847, p. 640. 



Body and tail compressed, limbs long. Head, neck and body 

 entirely covered with very small scales. Nostril small in the 

 upper part of a sub-quadrangular shield. Eyelids entirely covered 

 with granular scales. Gular sack small, ventral sca.les small, 

 smooth. The nuchal and dorsal crests high but discontinuous 

 at the shoulder. Sub-caudals two rowed. Colour, head, neck, 

 throat, and gular pouch gamboge, the scales edged with brown. 

 The eyelids dark brown, the tarsi buff. A dark blue streak from 

 the eye to nostril. Labials and tympanum pale blue. Seven 

 oblique dark blue streaks down the throat. Two brown bands 

 enclose the tympanum, meeting above. Back purple brown, 

 changing to deep lilac on the sides. Beneath white. Side of 

 the body with oblique series of lozenge-shaped spots, either red 

 or bright gamboge. Crests mulberry brown. The upper half 

 of the foremost 13 scales light green, and the foremost 10 scales 

 of the vertebral raest with their upper half pale yeUow. Tail 

 broadly banded white and brown. 



Length, body 6-50 ; tail 16-00 = 22-50 inches. 



Inhabits Pinang : Pegu. 



Beonchocela, Kaup. 



Body and sides covered with equal scales, regularly arranged. 

 The tips of these on the sides directed backwards and down- 



