636 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the [July, 



lowest casts of Hindoos capture these lizards commonly by digging them 

 out of their burrows on the banks of rivers, for the sake of their flesh, 

 which by these people is greatly relished. — Some individuals attain to 

 nearly 7 feet in length, but the majority are smaller. A female examin- 

 ed was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, feet 4f inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 1 3f 



Ditto ditto tail, 2 84 



Entire length, 4 feet 4f inch. 



FAM. IGUANID.E, Gray, (EUNOTES, DwnSril and Bibron.) 



Sub-Fam. Acrodontinjl (Acrodontes, Dum. and Bibr.) 



Gen. Calotes, Cuvier. 



Head quadrangular pyramidal, more or less elongated, with small 

 angular scales of nearly equal diameter. Occipital scale minute. 

 Tongue thick, fungous, rounded, with the apex slightly notched. In 

 the upper-jaw 5 incisors and 2 canines. Nostrils lateral, pierced through 

 a plate situated close to the muzzle. No transversal fold on the throat, 

 sometimes with a large longitudinal fold on both sides. A gular pouch 

 varying in size. A crest from the nape of the neck to the tail. Scales 

 of the sides of the trunk homogeneous, imbricated in oblique series. 

 No femoral pores. 



Sub. -Gen. Bronchocela, Kaup. 



Scales of the trunk in oblique series, inclined backwards, their points 

 directed downwards. Posterior part of the sides of the head not swollen. 



Bronchocela cristatella, (Kuhl.) 



Syn. — Lacerta mexicana strumosa, &c. Seba, 8.9, 1. 

 Agama cristatella, Kuhl. 

 Agama gutturosa, Merrem. 



Bronchocela cristatella, Kaup, apud Dum. and Bibr. 

 Agama moluccana, Lesson, apud Schinz. 

 Calotes gutturosa, Guerin. 

 Calotes cristatellus, Schinz. 

 Calotes gutturosus, Wiegmann. 

 " Gruning" of the Malays of the Peninsula. 



Cervical crest (6 to 10 scales,) abruptly decreasing on the anterior 

 part of the back ; scales of the side of the trunk keeled, scarcely half 

 the size of those of abdomen ; behind the posterior angle of the orbit 



