Notice of Colours in a Species of Chameleon. 391 
runs backwards from the chin along each side of the base of 
loose fringe, and terminates at the sides of the neck. The 
lower parts of the abdomen and the under surface of the 
tail have the scales small and equal ; and there is no central 
crest. The legs and feet are thickly studded externally with 
larger rounded scales, but they are small and equal on the 
inner surface. 
Colour. — The scales of this creature resemble a beautifully- 
coloured piece of elaborate mosaic work. The head has the 
muzzle of a dark green, edged with black, and spotted with 
vermilion ; the orbits and cheeks of a beautiful vermilion- 
tinted flesh colour. The top of the head is dark green, spotted 
with flesh colour ; the occipital plates flesh coloured, and 
the projecting ridges of the head dark green, pointed with 
black. The chin and throat are pale blue and green, studded 
with flesh colour and vermilion, the green becoming darker 
behind the loose fringes under the chin and throat, which 
have a belt of light blue at their roots, and are spotted with 
flesh colour and light green. The fringe consists of fourteen 
portions or segments ; the first three are single, the fourth 
and fifth consist of double flaps of skin, and the remaining 
ones are simple or single. 
The ridge of the back is of a bright yellowish green, spotted 
with dark green scales, the conical tubercles along the ridge 
ending in dark grey. There is next a narrow longitudinal 
band or belt of pale blue, with larger scales and spots of red 
and vermilion colour, running along the sides of the back ; 
and below this a broader longitudinal belt of reddish flesh 
colour, running from the temple and shoulder to the base of 
the tail, studded with several rows of larger scales of a light 
red colour. Below this belt again is another of blue dashed 
with green, ending in yellow green at the shoulders, and 
studded also with larger red scales. Under this is a broad 
belt of flesh colour, studded with larger and darker red 
scales, below which is a belt of lightish green and blue 
and dirty white ; another belt of dirty white and greenish 
forming the central part of the belly below. 
Legs. — The legs are bright yellowish green outside, studded 
