2. SITANA. 3. OTOCETPTIS. 271 



Upper head-scales small, sharply keeled: can thus rostralis and 

 supraciliary edge sharp, with strongly enlarged scales. Dorsal 

 scales larger than ventrals, with sharp keels forming straight longi- 

 tudinal Hues ; lateral scales smallest, uniform or intermixed with 

 scattered enlarged ones. Limbs above with uniform strongly 

 keeled scales. The length of the limbs varies very much ; in some 

 specimens the hind limb stretched forwards does not extend beyond 

 the orbit, in others {S. minor, Gthr.) it reaches the tip of the snout 

 or even considerably beyond. Tail round, slender, once and a half 

 to twice as long as the head and body, covered with equal keeled 

 scales. Olive-brown above, with a series of rhomboidal spots along 

 the middle of the back ; a more or less distinct light band along each 

 side of the back ; gular appendage tricoloured — blue, black, and red. 



Total length 198 millim. 



Head 21 „ 



Width of head 15 „ 



Body 60 „ 



Fore limb 40 „ 



Hind limb 68 „ 



Tail 117 „ 



India ; Ceylon. 



a,b. J. India. 



c-d. <J $ . India. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 



e-f, ff-h. d S • India. Dr. J. E. Gray [P.J. 1 .,p , 



i.Yg. India. Mr. Mathers. l(„^yP«^°* 



k-m. d 2 ■ Madras. T. 0. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. ( '='■""""'•■; 



n-o. Hgr. S.E. Berar. Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



p-t. Hgr. Godavery Valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



u-y. cJ & hgr. W. of Raitsur. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



z-a. Yg. Sevagherry. Col. Beddome [0.1. 



p. Yg. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C 1. 



y-8. Hgr. Ceylon. W. Holdsworth, Esq. [C.]. 



3. OTOCRYPTIS. 



Otocryptis, Wkgm. Isis, 1831, p. 293, and Herp. Mex. p. 14 ; Wagl. 

 Sy»t. Amph. p. 150 : Bum. Sr Bihr. iv. p. 430 ; Fitzing. Sijst. Sept. 

 p. 48 ; Gray, Cat. p. 237 ; Giinth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 127. 



Body compressed, limbs very long. Fifth toe very short, not 

 longer than first. All the scales keeled, the dorsals heterogeneous. 

 No dorsal crest. No gular fold. Male with a low nuchal crest and 

 a large folding gular appendage extending backwards to the belly, and 

 covered with large scales. Ear concealed. No prseanal or femoral 

 pores. 



Ceylon ; Southern India. 



1. Otocryptis bivittata. 



.Otocryptis bivittata, Clray, Cat. p. 238. 

 Otocryptis bivittata, Wiegm. I. c. ; Bum. 8f Bib?: p. 432 ; Oiinth. I. c. 

 wieffmanni. Waal. I. c. 



:XVp^JO Ul villi a-La., rr n:^.... 



- wiegm anni, Wagl. I. c. 



