326 agamiDjE. 



backwards and upwards ; ventral scales strongly keeled. The 

 adpressed hind limb reaches the tympanum or slightly beyond ; third 

 and fourth fingers equal. Tail compressed. Green, uniform, or with 

 broad black transverse bands on the back ; in one of the specimens 

 each scale within the black bands with a central orange-coloured 

 spot. 



Total length 463 millim. 



Head 34 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 104 „ 



Fore hmb 68 „ 



Hind limb 93 „ 



Tail .... 325 „ 



Malabar. 

 a-d. (3 2 ■ -Foot of Canoot Ghat. Col. Beddome [0.]. (Types.) 



13. Calotes nemoricola. 



Calotes nemoricola, Jerion, Journ. As. Soc. Bang. xxii. 1853, p. 471, 

 and Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1870, p. 78. 



Upper head-scales feebly keeled, imbricate, enlarged on supra- 

 orbital region ; three or four very small spines above the tympanum ; 

 latter measuring not quite half the diameter of the orbit. A gular 

 pouch ; gular scales larger than ventrals, very feebly keeled. A 

 short oblique fold in front of the shoulder. Nuchal crest formed 

 of large lanceolate spines, the largest of which measure three fourths 

 the diameter of the orbit ; dorsal crest a mere serrated ridge. Thirty- 

 seven to forty-three scales round the middle of the body ; dorsal scales 

 three times as large as ventrals, squarish, smooth, pointing backwards 

 and upwards ; ventral scales strongly keeled. The adpressed hind limb 

 reaches hardly the tympanum ; third and fourth fingers equal. Tail 

 compressed. Olive above, with indistinct darker markings ; a black 

 streak from the eye to above the tympanum ; dark lines radiating 

 from the eye ; gular sac pink (in. spirit). 



Total length 470 millim. 



Head 40 



Width of head 25 



Body 100 



Fore limb 62 



Hind limb 87 



Tail 330 



Malabar. 



a-b. (5 2 . Malabar. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



14. Calotes liolepis. (Plate XXV. fig. 2.) 

 Calotes nemoricola {non Jerd^, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 507. 

 Upper head-scales smooth, ijnbricate, strongly enlarged on supra- 



