19. AGAMA. 341 



Total length 2'56 millim. 



Head 24 „ 



Widtt of head 19 „ 



Body 70 „ 



Fore limb 45 „ 



Hind limb 62 „ 



TaU 162 „ 



Algerian Desert. 



(J . Sahara. 



5. Agama agllls. 



Agama agilis, Grat/, Cat. p. 257. 

 Agama agilis, Olivier, Voy. Emp. Ottoman, ii. p. 438, pi. xxix. fig. 2 ; 



Bum. |- Bibr. iv. p. 496. 

 Podorrhoa (Planodes) agilis, part., Fitxing. Syst. Hept. p. 81. 

 Agama agilis, part., Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 672. 



Head moderate, convex, subcordiform. Nostril not tubular, 

 lateral, pierced just below the canthus rosfcralis in the posterior 

 part of a flat nasal. Upper head-scales convex, smooth ; occipital 

 not enlarged ; a few short spines on the post-temporal region, and 

 two or three on the upper edge of the ear, which is not larger than 

 the eye-opening, and exposed ; males with a very slight indication 

 of a gular pouch. Body roundish, moderately depressed, covered 

 above with equal, rhomboidal, imbricate, feebly keeled, shortly 

 mucronate scales ; lateral and ventral scales much smaller, smooth, 

 or indistinctly keeled. Limbs moderate ; tibia as long as the skuU 

 (to occiput); third finger slightly shorter than fourth, fifth not 

 extending as far as second ; third toe much shorter than fourth, 

 fifth not extending quite as far as first. Tail about once and three 

 fourths as long as the distance from gular fold to vent, rounded, 

 covered with keeled scales. Male with a single or double row of 

 anal pores. Sandy-coloured above, with more or less distinct broad 

 transverse dark bars, enclosing an elongate narrow lighter spot on 

 the vertebral line ; the coUar-pit blackish ; lower surfaces cream- 

 coloured ; the male's throat lined with brown. 



Total length 200 millim. 



Head 22 



Width of head 20 



Body 68 



Fore limb 43 



Hind limb 63 



Tail 110 



Bagdad ; Southern Persia. 



a. $. 



Kazeroon, S. Persia. 



jlp J p . Abadeh, S. Persia. 



