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S. S. W. from Honore. The usual change of colour consists in the 

 head and nape becoming brick red, and the rest of the body blackish. 



Length of one 11 inches, of which the tail is 7f .* 

 Calotes yikldis, Gray. 



Nape with 2 isolated spines above the ears ; a high crest on nape 

 and shoulders diminishing along the back and lost on the root of 

 the tail, scales large above, smaller beneath, those at base of the tail 

 largest. I always considered .that the very pretty green lizard 

 which I had procured from Travancore and the southernmost portion 

 of Malabar agreed tolerably exactly with the description of C. 

 ophiomachus, but Mr. Gray has described it as new by the name 

 of viridis.f 



The colour is a bluish-green with 4 or 5 transverse stripes of 

 reddish white, and some of the scales of the throat are edged with 

 orange. 



Length of one 16f inches, of which the tail is nearly 13. 

 Calotes ophiomachus. 



A small crest of long spines on each side of the nape. Dorsal 

 crest extending to the root of the tail, which is long, conical, and very 

 thin towards the end. Green; with transverse bands. 



Mr. W. Elliot possesses a rough drawing and brief description of 

 a green lizard, distinct from any of those previously described, which 

 I believe to be identical with the C. ophiomachus of authors. He 

 procured the specimen in Dharwar. Its dimensions were as follow : 



Length 14 inches, of which the tail is 10. 



The drawing represents the colours to be pale green with dark 

 transverse bands, interrupted by a pale longitudinal line from ear 

 to tail. 



Gen. SALEA, Gray. 



Differs from Calotes in the series of scales pointing directly back- 



* This coloration is altogether dissimilar from that described of my supposed 

 C. Rouxi from Newera Elia, vide J. A. S. XXI, 354. — Cur. As. Soc. 



f Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVIII, page 429. [There appears to be some con- 

 fusion here. The present species we consider to be, decidedly, C. ophiomachus, 

 as figured by Daudin ; and its range extends to Ceylon and to the Nicobar islands. 

 The C. viridis, Gray, was long »go presented by Mr. Jerdon to the Society, and 

 it does not correspond with Mr. Jerdon's present descriptions, either of this or of 

 the next species; yet his figure sent of the supposed ophiomachus would seem 

 to represent C. viridis. — Cur. As. Soc.'] 





