CORDYLUS CATAPHRACTUS.— Gray. 
Reptilia. — Plate XXIX. 
0. superne pallide flavo-brunncus, dorsi medio leviter viridi-tincto ; partibus inferioribus brunno-rubns 
flavo nebulatis ; gala guttureque profunde brunneis flavo maculatis ; extremitatibus caudaque flavo- 
brunneis. 
Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse 5 unc. ; caudte 7 unc. 
Cordylus cataphr ACTUS, Gray. 
Cordylus maculosus, Smith, Magazine of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 31. 
Zoncuus cataphractxjs, Dum. and Bib. Erpotol. General, vol. v. fol. 355. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head and body interme- 
diate between yellow and orange-coloured brown, darkest on the upper 
surface of the head, particularly towards the nose, the middle of the back 
faintly tinted with green. Tail and extremities clear yellowish brown. The 
belly and under surface of tail dull brownish red, clouded with dirty light 
yellow ; space between rami of lower jaw and also the throat umbei -biown, 
spotted with king’s-yellow. 
Form, &c. — Head rather large and much depressed, its sides anteriorly 
nearly perpendicular, posteriorly convex, and laterally very protuberant ; 
neck narrower than the head ; body depressed and subovate ; tail thick at 
the base, acute at the point. The upper surface of the head is flat, the plates 
covering it finely granular, and the shape of each will be best comprehended 
from an examination of Plate XXX. figs. 9 and 9 a. The scales of the 
temples are large, irregular-shaped, and tubercular, some of them almost 
keeled, and the hinder ones, which overlap the external ear, are prolonged so 
as to form acute spiny points. Labial scales of upper jaw six, the last three 
tubercular and carinated; those of lower jaw five, the last two horizontally 
compressed, thin and highly keeled. Nostrils near the apex of the muzzle 
each small, circular and opening in the centre of the naso-nostral plate, which 
is prominent and hemispherical. The sides and upper surface of the neck 
