1870.] Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. 179 



Chameleon. The dorsal row of scales is in all appreciably enlarged. 

 The labials are often black, and there are various black spots round 

 the tympanum, and the sides of the belly or often partially or some- 

 times wholly black. In one specimen from Java, there are yellow- 

 ish bands across the back as in B. jubata. The tail is usually light 

 greenish or reddish brown, on the anterior half with some distinct 

 whitish irregularly black-edged rings. There are also very commonly 

 two small black spots on the top of the head, some distance behind 

 the rostrum. Specimens from the Wellesley Province, Penang and 

 Java have 38 — 40 scales on each side. 



32. Bronchocele moluccana, Less. Peters (Berl. Akad. 1867, 

 p. 16) considers this species as distinct from cristatella. One speci- 

 men from Singapore apparently belonging to this species has 

 only 32 lateral rows of scales, but these are of perfectly the same 

 small size and general character, as in crystatella from Penang. 

 The specimen measures 1 6 inches, of which the tail is 1 3^ inches ; 

 the colour is uniform bright green, the orbit, the extreme margins of 

 the labials, the tympanum, a spot behind the same, and the whole 

 of the sides black ; posterior part of the tail brownish. There is no 

 difference in the shape of the head, or in the form and character 

 of the scales on it and on the body from crystatella. 



Steindachner (Eept. Nov., p. 27) mentions 2 specimens of 

 B. cristalella from the Nicobars, possessing 29 — 31 rows of lateral 

 scales ; these would very closely correspond with the Singapore 

 form of B. moluccana. 



33. Bronchocele jubata^ D. and B. (G- iinth., 1. cit. p. 139). 



A large specimen from Java is bright green with the orbital 

 skin, edge of the tympanum, and the labials black ; a yellow- 

 ish elongated spot below the tympanum, five narrow cross bands of 

 the same colour on the body, the first and last being between the 

 fore and hind limbs ; tail brownish. 



A variety apparently of this species occurs on the Nicobars. I 

 received from Camorta four specimens, each about 1 8 inches long of 

 which the tail is 14 inches. The general form of the lizard, number 

 and size of scales, form of the crest and the two enlarged rows of a 



