AGAMA CiELATICEPS. — Smith 
Reptilia. — Plate LXXIV. 
A. superneflavo-brunnea, brunneo-rubro fasciata; infra subflava maculis parvis nigro-brunneis variegatis ; 
capitis squamis caslatis. 
Longitcdo e nasi apice ad basin caudee 5 unc. ; caudss 3 unc. 
Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head greyish brown, the former 
with one complete and one or two incomplete transverse, clear wood-brown bars 
between the eyes, the latter with some clear yellowish brown spots, more espe- 
cially under the eyes ; the upper lip and the nose liver-brown. The back and 
sides are yellowish brown, more or less freckled with buff-orange spots, and 
broadly barred with brownish red, each bar near the dorsal line crossed with 
a liver-brown more or less lunate stripe. The upper and lateral parts of the 
tad barred yellowish brown and brownish red. The under parts of the head, 
body, and tail cream-yellow; the chin and the sides of the lower jaw speckled 
profusely, the belly sparingly, with small liver-brown spots. The under surface 
of the tail faintly clouded with pale brownish-red. The extremities above and 
behind yellowish brown clouded with brownish red, below pale cream-yellow ; 
claws buff-orange. 
Form, &c. Head subtriangular, the hindhead considerably wider than the 
neck. Body slightly depressed, convex above, the sides protuberant and 
arched ; tail tapered, subcylindrical, very slender at and near the point. The 
anterior half of the head is quadrangular, the posterior half convex above, pro- 
minent, and irregular at the sides ; the upper surface towards the nose is 
slightly convex, between the eyes concave, the superciliary ridges being pro- 
minent and arched. Nose rather narrow and rounded anteriorly ; nostrils 
projecting, subconical, nearer to the point of the nose than the eye, and close 
to the can thus rostralis. Eyes rather small and moderately prominent; lower 
eyelid deep, and coated with three or four rows of small triangular scales ; the 
point of each directed upwards ; ears vertically ovate, moderately large, tym- 
panum deep, but distinctly visible ; anterior extremities rather slender : the 
