CORDYLUS MICROLEPIDOTUS. 
Reptilia.— Plates XXIV. XXY. and XXVI. 
C. dorso maculis flavis in ordinibus transversis ornato ; cauda superne flavo-variegata ; cervice, dorso, 
lateribusque squamis parvis plus minusve carinatis et in seriebus transversis, ordinatis ; cauda superne 
squamis carinatis spinosis arm at a ; poris fcmoralibus verrucosis in ordinibus duabus aut tribus dis- 
positis. 
Cordulus microlepidotus, Cuv. Reg. Animal. 2d Edit. vol. ii. f. 33. 
Cordylus montanus, — melanotus, — Algoensis, — et subviridis, Smith, Mag. Nat. Hist, 
vol. ii. page 32. 
(Var. Fig. A. Plate XXIV.) 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head clear brownish red, the 
former marked with a longitudinal narrow line of a pale reddish orange colour 
over each eye; the sides of the head in front of the eyes and the lips pale brown- 
ish yellow. The upper surface of the back and the tail livid brownish red, 
the former variegated with short transverse stripes or spots of an ochre-yellow 
colour, so disposed as to form several broken bands ; — between the hinder legs 
and on the neck immediately behind the head the bands are sometimes continu- 
ous ; the sides of the upper surface of the tail are sparingly mottled with 
short, narrow, yellow streaks, and a band of the same colour is often observed 
extending from the side of the neck and arching over the base of each fore- 
leg. The sides of the body intermediate between gall-stone and ochre- 
yellow, and vertically barred by several triangular prolongations of the dark 
colour of the back, which in some specimens reach to the margin of the abdo- 
men ; the sides and under-surface of the tail gamboge-yellow,— the former 
marked with many narrow vertical liver-brown bars. Belly and under surface 
of extremities intermediate between gamboge and sienna-yellow ; upper sur- 
face of extremities pale gamboge-yellow irregularly barred with reddish- 
brown. The sides of the neck with two distinct and more or less vertical 
spots of a darker colour than the back, and the space between the rami of the 
lower jaw is a livid blue. Eyes chesnut brown. 
(Var. — Fig. B. Plate XXIV.) 
Colour. The upper surface of the head and the temples chesnut-brown ; 
the back orange-coloured brown variegated with transverse bars of quadran- 
