194 Descriptions of two new species of Reptiles. |_No. 3, 



The upper surface of the snout is marked with some black dashes. 

 Vertex and occiput of head black. Another line runs from below 

 the eye to the ear. Another black line, or stripe runs from behind 

 each eye, on either side, to a point above the ear, and then continues 

 backwards, on each side of the nape, to the middle of the back of the 

 neck, where it stops. These two lines, or stripes, thus converge, and 

 nearly meet on the back of the neck. The ground colour on either 

 side of the black stripe which runs from behind the eye is of a bright 

 gamboge yellow, forming two longitudinal bands of yellow behind the 

 eye, with the black stripe in the midst. A black stripe also runs, on 

 either side, from the back of the ear to a point between the shoulders, 

 where these two lines unite, forming an acute angle of which the apex 

 is directed posteriorly. A single black stripe runs from the centre of 

 the occiput backwards, to the centre of the angle formed by junction 

 of the two black stripes which run from the ear to a point between 

 the shoulders, and unites with these lines there, dividing the receding 

 angle in the midst. Rudiments of smaller black lines, converging 

 towards the same point, and pale inky, or ashy-black, shadings, appear 

 between the larger converging stripes. From the apex of this pos- 

 teriorly directed angle of black, between the shoulders, a norrow lon- 

 gitudinal black stripe runs backwards along the centre of the back, to 

 near the root of the tail — but not quite reaching it,— tapering off 

 more and more finely in a posterior direction, until it disappears 

 above the lumbar region. Ground colour of the back of the neck, 

 between the black stripes, a bright orange, when the animal is living, 

 or but recently killed, (fading after the skin is stuffed). The sides of 

 the neck and shoulders gamboge yellow, and marked with several 

 round, blackish ashy coloured blotches, or ocelli, — two on the shoulders 

 being the most conspicuous. Sides of body, and sides of back, marked 

 with round gamboge yellow spots, or blotches, with ashy coloured 

 cloudings between them. General ground colour of back, pale 

 greenish ashy, mixed with bright yellow. No rings, or marks, on the 

 under side of the throat, which is of a dirty white colour. Belly 

 white. 



Tail round, with not the slightest sign of any longitudinal ridge, 

 keel, or crest,— ^nd more thin and tapering than in either V. draccena 

 or V. lunatus. 



