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indistinctly to the end. The white colour broader and forming a 

 pale spot on each side of neck. A white spot anteriorly to the 

 last on the crest. Lower parts yellowish white, the throat 

 speckled with pale dusky. A conspicuous oblique white band 

 from beneath the eye to gape. 

 Inhabits Sagur, Central India. 



Salea, Gray. 



Nasal pantagonal, resting on the first labial. 



Scales of back and sides strongly keeled, with larger ones 

 interspersed. Scales form longitudinal series, with the tips direct- 

 ed backwards. Head without spines. Back crested. Gular sack 

 or fold none. Nostrils lateral in the hinder part of a small shield. 



S. Horsfieldii Gray = female. 



8. Jerdoni Gray = male ; teste Giinther. 

 Calotes viridis Gray, apud Blyth. 



Dorsal crest high in the adult male, separated from the nu- 

 chal portion by a short interspace. Crest rudimentary in females. 

 Colour bright grass green marked with brown. Back with irre- 

 gular black and white cross bands. Many white scales being dark 

 margined and black ones with a red longitudinal streak. Head 

 red and white spotted. Crest partly black, partly red. A black 

 band, white margined below, from the eye to behind the shoul- 

 der, interrupted behind the tympanum. Large isolated scales, 

 white. Legs banded like the back ; tail brown barred. 



Length, body 4-00; tail 11-00 = 15-00 inches. 



Inhabits the NUghiri hUls and Newera Ellia, Ceylon. 



Giinther, with the ' types' before him, unites both of Gray's 

 species, but Anderson seems to regard them as distinct, J. A. S., 

 1871, p. 32. 



Salea gulavis of Blyth seems a Calotes. 



ACANTHOSAUEA, Gray. 

 Back and sides covered with very small scales, with larger 

 keeled ones intermingled. A free spine behind the superciliary 

 edge. A dorsal crest of non-united spines. Gular sack none. 



