AGAMA. 371 



of the head and sides of the head tubercular ; of the back imbi-icate, 

 keeled, and gradually increasing in size towards the tail, on which it 

 is twice the size of the largest on the back. Limbs and toes covered 

 with keeled imbricate scales. Ventral scales indistinctly keeled and in 

 24-26 series between the fore legs. Length 8 to 8| inches, of which 

 the tailis 5 to 6^. Colour sandy, or greyish, or pale brown, with a longi- 

 tudinal paler, or pale white stripe on the neck, and a series of 6 oval 

 patches on the vertebral line, laterally edged with black in females and 

 red in males, with two rows of sub-quadrate spots on the sides. Tail 

 with 12-14 dark brown bands, not extending on its under surface, 

 which, like the entire lower parts, is white, or yellowish white. 

 Limbs with dark patches, each with a mesial yellowish vertical streak, 

 which is indistinct in some specimens ; there are also 2-3 dusky bands 

 across the forehead. Claws dark brown in most specimens. 



Eah. — Sind (Kurrachee) Bushire, and Shiraz in Persia. 



Trapelus rubrigularis, Rupp. ; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, Sfc, Sind, 

 p. 259. — The Red-theoated Teapelus. 



Head short, bluff, covered with unequal sized, rather convex and 

 faintly keeled scales. Superciliary edge covered with smooth 

 imbricate plates in 3 series. Nostril in a single shield placed anteriorly 

 and directed upwards. Rostral nearly three times the size of the upper 

 labials, its up{>er edge separated from the nostril by two small shields. 

 A median series of enlarged scales on the head, the last of the series 

 with a sub-central depression and three or four larger shields behind. 

 Eyelids scaly, the edges fringed. Ear sunk, with two or three scales on 

 its hinder edge. Upper lip sarrounded by 30 — 32 scales. Back covered 

 with indistinctly keeled imbricate scales, with some distinctly keeled 

 larger ones interspersed. Ventral scales smooth in 22-24 series across 

 the fore legs. Legs slender, covered inside and out with imbricate 

 keeled scales, also the palmar surface of the feet. The fore leg laid 

 back reaches a little beyond the axil of the hind leg, and the hind 

 leg laid forward reaches the hind edge of the eye. 



Colour greyish with a longitudinal interrupted dark brown band on 

 each side of the back from the nape, and another from the side of the 

 neck on each side to the shoulder. In well-marked specimens two 

 dark lines behind the eye, and five rather oval white spots on the 

 vertebral line. Tail with 10-12 transverse dark bands. Throat with 

 a patch of red, rest of under parts China white. 



Length. — 3 to 3^ inches, of which the tail is H to If. 



fl-ftt. — Shikarpoor, Temple Deyra (Upper Sind), Nari base, Muscat, 

 Beloochistan and Persia. 



Agama agilis, OUv. Voy. Ottom. ii. p. 428, pi. xxix. fig. i. ; D. et 

 B. E. G. iv. 497; Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 384; Murray, HdbJc., 

 Zool., 8fc., Sind, 259.— The Agile Agame. 



Muzzle short, blunt. Nostrils, small, situated behind the 3rd scale 

 from the margin of the upper jaw. A fold before each shoulder. Scales 

 on the forehead convex, larger on the back of the head. Dorsal scalea 



