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AOAMID^. 



than the skull. Tail compressed, not twice as long as head and 

 body, covered above with unequal scales, inferiorly with equal 

 larger ones, the size of which exceeds that of the ventrals ; all the 

 caudal scales keeled. Light brown, with broad oblique blackish 

 bands down each side ; lips dark brown ; some of the enlarged 

 scales whitish. 



Total length 132 millim. 



Head 15 



Width of head 11-5 



Body 35 



Fore limb 30 



Hind limb 49 



Tail 82 



Borneo. 



f. c?. Matang. 



15. SALEA. 



Salea, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 242 ; Gunth. Sept. Brit. Ind. p. 145. 

 Mecolepis, A. Dwin. Cat. MHh. Rept. p. 87. 

 Lophosalea, Beddome, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 153. 



Tympanum distinct. Body compressed, covered with unequal- 

 sized imbricate keeled scales. Male with a dorso- nuchal crest and 

 a gular sac. No transverse gular fold. Tail compressed. No 

 femoral or praeanal pores. 



Southern India. 



1. Salea horsfieldii. 



Salea horsfieldii, Gray, Cat. p. 242. 

 Salea jerdonii, Gray, Ann. Mag. N. H. xviii. 1846, p. 429 ; Jerdon, 

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

 Zeyl. p. 167. 

 Mecolepis trispinosua, A. Hum. Cat. Meth. p. 88, and Arch. Mus. 

 viii. p. 564, pi. xxiv. fig. 1. 



hirsutua, A. Dum. II. cc. pp. 88 & 666, fig. 2. 



sulcatus, A. Bum. II. cc. pp. 89 & 567, fig. 3. 



Salea horsfieldii, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 145. 



Snout not more than once and a half as long as the diameter of 

 the orbit, which equals about twice that of the tympanum ; upper 

 head-scales large, rugose, with a more or less marked curved series 

 of regular ones bordering the supraorbital region internally ; a row 

 of three or four enlarged scales from the eye to above the tympanum. 

 Gular scales lanceolate, keeled, ending in a spine as large as or a 

 little larger than the ventrals. No fold in front of the shoulder. 

 Nuchal crest, in the male composed of a few lanceolate spines 

 directed backwards, the longest measuring nearly the length of the 

 snout, with smaller ones at the base ; in the female this crest is 

 reduced to a double row of alternate oblique short spines ; dorsal 



