CORDYLUS MICROLEPIDOTUS. 
the centre of each scale being of the latter colour ; the upper surface of the 
head anteriorly oil-green. The sides of the lips and body a light yellowish 
emerald-green, and the latter is partially barred with a number of narrow pro- 
longations of the dark colour of the back ; the sides of the neck with two 
dark liver-brown spots, the anterior one waved, the hinder one vertical. Tail 
pale liver-brown, irregularly spotted with sulphur-yellow ; belly livid greenish 
yellow; legs and toes oil-green barred with liver-brown. Eyes deep reddish 
brown. 
Female and young. — (Figs. B. and C.) — The upper surface of head and back 
pale umber-brown, the sides of the former finely edged with pale oil-green, and 
the discs of plates finely dotted with the same colour ; the back variegated with 
a number of small irregular pale oil-green spots. Sides intermediate between 
oil-green and ochre yellow, and marked with several longitudinal lines oi 
small liver-brown spots ; sides of head yellowish hair-brown. Tail oil-green 
mottled with somewhat square umber-brown spots ; extremities the same 
colour as the sides and speckled with umber-brown spots. Belly straw yel- 
low with a greenish tinge. Eyes deep reddish brown. 
Form, &c.— Head rather depressed and sub triangular, its upper surface 
posteriorly level, and anteriorly sloped towards the nose ; its sides in front oi 
the eyes nearly perpendicular, behind them convex and bulged, particularly 
posterior to the angles of the mouth ; the hinder edge of the temples armed 
with two or three compressed tubercular looking scales, which project out- 
wards and backward, and conceal more or less the external openings of the 
ears. The forms of the plates and scales of the head vary a little in the 
different varieties, and even in individuals of the same variety, as will be 
seen on referring to Plate XXX.* The plates of the temples differ con- 
siderably in size and configuration, being in some like scales, in others like 
lengthened plates, and such variations are even exhibited by specimens 
of the same variety. The neck and body like the head is somewhat de- 
pressed, and the latter bulges considerably on each side. The skin of the 
neck, particularly the portions which cover its side is loose, and more or less 
folded or deeply wrinkled, and between these wrinkles are situated the very 
* Fig 1 the upper surface of the head of specimen, figured Plate XXIV. 1 ;-l a, the side of the head 
of ditto Fig 2 the upper surface of the head of specimen figured Tlate XXIV. 2 2 a, the side of the 
hea d of ditto —2 b, femoral pores of ditto. Fig. 3, the upper surface of the head of specimen figured 
Plate XXV A —3 a the side of head of ditto ;-3b, the femoral pores of ditto. Fig. 4, the upper surface 
of the" head of specimen figured Plate XXVI. A ;-4 a, the side of head of ditto ;-4 b, the femoral pores 
of ditto. 
