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consider it highly nourishing and aphrodisiac, and many Europeans 

 use it for soup, imagining it allied to the West Indian Guana. It 

 can always be procured in the Madras market. 



Length of one 44 inches, of which the tail is 25.* 

 Tarn. LACEBTIDvE. 



Gen. CALOSAUKA— Dum. and Bibr. 



Maxillary teeth simple and tricuspid. Nostril placed on the 

 canthus rostralis. A small fold of skin in front of the shoulder j 

 abdominal scutae quadrilateral, smooth, placed in longitudinal bands ; 

 5 fingers and 5 toes ; tail square at the root, round for the rest of 

 its extent. 



Calosattra Lescheisattltii — Dum. and Bibr. 



Dorsal scales rhomboidal, keeled j six rows of longitudinal scales 

 on the abdomen. 



Eeddish brown above, pale yellow beneath, sides dark brown with 

 2 pale yellow bands, tail red. 



Length of one 5 T 2 ^th in. of which the tail is 3f . 



This pretty little ground lizard is somewhat locally distributed. 

 I have seen it in the Salem and Coimbatoor districts only, especially 

 near the banks of the Cavery. It frequents bushy ground, hedges 

 of Euphorbia and clumps of Cactus, under which it rapidly takes 

 shelter, as also among rocks. f 



Gen. ACANTHODACTYLTJS— Eitz. 



One naso-rostral plate, ventral lamellae quadrilateral, smooth, 

 Eingers and toes compressed, toothed. 



ACANTHODACTTLTJS NILGHEBKEWSIS n. S. 



Anterior edge of ear toothed scaly, collar transverse, scales of 

 back somewhat larger behind than in front, an occipital plate. 



This lizard, apparently belonging to a genus new to India, was 



* The largest specimen in the Society's museum measures 52 in. ; and our 

 largest of Hydrosaurus salvator, (Laur.), 78 in., or exactly the same as that of 

 H. giganteus, Gray, in the British Museum. Empagusia flavescens, Gray, our 

 third common Monitor of Lower Bengal, we have not known to exceed 3 ft. 

 in length. The Society has lately received a large specimen of Hydrosaurus salva- 

 tor from Ceylon ; and Empagusia flavescens likewise inhabits the Indus territories. 

 — Cur. As. Soc. 



f The Society's Museum contains examples of what we take to be this species 

 from Pind Dadun Khan, in the Punjab Salt Range ; and formerly possessed the 

 same from Afghanistan. — Cur. As. Soc. 



