270 ASAMiDJa. 



directed upwards, perfectly vertical ; tympanum scaly. Upper head- 

 scales very small, subequal, keeled ; fifteen upper labials. The 

 male's gular appendage nearly twice as long as the head. A slight 

 nuchal fold. Dorsal scales smooth, equal, not larger thanventrals ; 

 lateral series of enlarged scales very indistinct. The fore limb 

 stretched forwards extends considerably beyond the tip of the snout ; 

 the adpressed hind limb reaches a little beyond the elbow of the ad- 

 pressed fore lim.b. Eeddish-brown above, brown-dotted all over; wing- 

 membranes beautifully marked above with five regular curved black 

 bands as broad as the light interspaces betweem them, inferiorly 

 with three much narrower black bands occupying the same position 

 as the three median dorsal bands ; a black band across the neck, 

 behind the gular appendage ; throat grey, brown -dotted. 



Total length (tail broken) 205 millim. 



Head 20 



Width of head 13 



Body 85 



Fore limb 46' 



Hind limb 62 



Penang. 



a. (J. Penang. Gen. Hardwicke [P.]. (Type.) 



2. SITANA. 



Sitana, Cuv. Regtie Anim. 2nd ed. ii. p. 43 ; Dum. S,- Bibr. iv. p. 435 ; 



Ormj, Cat. p. 'J36 ; Giinth. Rept. Brit. hid. p. 134. 

 Semiophorus, Wagl. 8yst. Amph. p. lo2 ; Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 14 ; 



Fltzing. Syst. Rept. p. 47. 



Body slightly compressed, limbs long. Fifth toe absent. Scales 

 all keeled, regular, smallest on the flanks. No dorsal crest. Male 

 vrith a slight nuchal fold and a large folding gular appendage 

 extending backwards to the belly and covered with large scales. 

 No gular fold. Ear exposed. No prseanal or femoral pores. 



India; Ceylon. 



1. Sitana ponticeriana. 



Sitana ponticeriana, Oray, Cat. p. 236. 

 Sitana ponticeriana, Cuv. I. c. ; Guir. Icon. R. A. j Rept. pi. x. fig. 2 ; 



Dum. ^ Bibr. p. 437 ; JDuvern. R. A. Rept., pi. xvi. fig. 2 ; Jerdon, 



Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 473 ; Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. 



p. 164 ; Giinth. I. c. p. 135 ; Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 76 ; 



Blanf. Journ. As. Soc. Benq. xxxix. 1870, p. 365 ; Stoliczka, Journ. 



As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. i08 ; Tlieob. Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 102. 

 Semiophorus ponticerianus, Wagl. I. c. 

 Sitana minor, Giinth. I. c. pi. xiv. fig. A ; Steind. Novara, Rept. p. 26 ; 



Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 166. 

 deccanensis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 76 ; Blanf. 



I. c. p. 367. 



