470 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the Peninsula of India. [No. 5. 



Head and back covered with small granulose scales, and two or 

 three distant rows of spines on each side and extending along the 

 tail ; chin and throat covered with small hexagonal scales, gradually 

 changing to rounded imbricated scales which cover the abdomen ; 

 scales of tail imbricate, with 3 rows of larger nail-shaped scuta? 

 beneath ; scales of the basal joints of the fingers and toes, enlarged, 

 nail-shaped. 



Body above greyish -brown, with a light stripe down the centre of 

 the back, and a series of dark brown marks on the head, back and 

 sides ; legs and feet banded ; beneath bluish- white ; chin, throat, 

 and anterior portion of palpebral bright yellow. 



Length of one 2§ inches, of which the tail is 1\. 



I have quite recently found this small and very distinctly charac- 

 terized species of Gecko at Bangalore, frequenting rocks and also 

 entering out-houses. The young has the tail flesh-coloured: 2 

 femoral pores on one side and 3 on the other. 

 Earn. iaUANID^E. 



Gen. CALOTES, Cuv. Vide Cant. 1. c. p. 636. 

 Calotes yeesicoloe, (Daud.) 



Two spines on each side of the nape. No fold on the neck. — ■ 

 Tail conical. Scales large, keeled. 



Syn. Agama Tiedmanni, Kuhl. — A. vulturosa, Harl. 



This is the most common and extensively distributed lizard in the 

 country, being found everywhere in gardens, avenues and jungles. 

 Though not a Chameleon in structure, it is yet one in habit, and much 

 more so than our Chameleon. Its usual tints are a pale drab or 

 fawn colour, but this it changes to bright red, to black and to a 

 mixture of yellow red and black. This change is sometimes confined 

 to the head, at other times diffused over the whole body and tail. 

 A common state to see it in, is seated on a hedge or bush with the 

 tail and limbs black, head and neck yellow picked out with red, and 

 the rest of the body red. I am inclined to think that this display of 

 colours is merely seasonal. It only occurs in the males, the females 

 being uniformly and plainly coloured. The young has a pale band 

 on each side of the body from the eye to the tail, and a series of 

 dark bands on the back. Mr. Blyth mentions, in a notice of this 

 lizard in the Journ. As. Soc. for 1842, p. 870, that its usual colour 



