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AGAMID^. 



Nape with two isolated spines above the ears. Neck without any pit 

 in front of the shoulder, but with dark spots at the hinder part of the 

 lower jaw. Eyebrows not horned. 



Colour green. Scales large ; at base of tail larger ; of limbs and 

 under side of the body smaller ; of crown smallest ; nape and shoulders 

 with a compressed crest. Hinder part of back and tail with an obscure 

 keel. , 



Hah. — Upper Sind, Beloochistan, Punjab, S. India and the Deccan. 



Phrynocephalus, Kaup. 



Head short, depressed, obtusely rounded in front, covered with 

 «mall shields; those on the snout and occiput largest and convex. 

 Nostrils in front of the snout directed upwards and forwards. Tympa- 

 num hidden. Body and tail depressed, covered with very small scales. 

 Throat with a transverse fold. No dorsal crest whatever. No pree-anal 

 and femoral pores. Viviparous. No canthus rostralis. A distinct groove 

 runs round the upper jaw above the labial shields. Byes rather small. 

 Eyelid well developed. 



Phrynocephalus olivieri, Dum. et Bib. Erp. Gen. p. 517 ; 

 Blanf. Eastn. Persia, p. 237 ; Gunth. Rep. Brit. India, p. 160. 

 Phrynocephalus tickelli. Gray, Gat. Liz. Brit. Mus. p. 260 ; Gunth. 

 Rep. Brit. India p. 160. — Oliviee's or the Afghan Phrynooephale. 



Tail depressed at the base, slender, not prehensile, with a series o£ 

 small spinous tubercles along each side of its basal portion. Scales of 

 the upper parts of equal size, except in the sacral region, where some 

 larger ones are intermixed with the others. Upper labials 31, most of 

 which are triangular and slightly pointed. The hind leg extends to 

 the eye if laid forward. Tail with broad, alternate, whitish and blackish 

 rings. Colour variable. Mr. Blanford notes the colours of living 

 specimens as olive grey, drab or dusky. Along the middle of 

 the back a well-defined oval patch from shoulder to loin, one-third of 

 which is pink or pale purplish. A dark band across the back behind 

 the shoulders, another in front of the thighs, often united by longitu- 

 dinal bands, one along each side. 



Length. — From 3'5 to 4'5 inches. 



Hab — Sind, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Southern Persia and the 

 Punjab. Inhabiting holes in gravelly situations or barren wastes. 



Stellio, Daudin. 



Body depressed. Scales of back and sides unequal in size and shape. 

 Tail round. Scales irregularly verticillate> Throat with a cross fold. 

 No gular sac ; no femoral or prse-anal pores, but thickened spongy scales 

 in the pr^-anal region. Tympanum naked. 



Stellio melanura, Blyth ; Theobald, Rep. Brit. India, p. 117; 

 Murray, Hdblc, Zool., Sfc, Sind, p. 259. Laudakia melanura, Blyth, J. 

 A. S. B. 1854, p. 737. 



Eight rows of enlarged keeled scales on the middle of the back, the 

 keel forming longitudinal lines. No enlarged scales on the back of 



