F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. 
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The enlarged scales on the hack, and especially at the sides of the body, 
are invariably well marked, but less numerous in female than in male speci- 
mens ; they are during life yellow or golden, and during the breeding season 
often tinged rosy, or even vermilion. In Northern India the species does not 
appear to attain the size which it does in Central India, for none of the 
specimens from the former country are above 5) inches, the tail being generally 
more than twice the length of the body. The claws on fingers and toes are 
always black. The tympanum is usually covered by a yellowish hardened 
shield. 
Jerdon (Proc. Asiat. Soc. Beng., Feb. 1870, p. 76) is, I think, correct 
in retaining the name Ponticeriana, for the smaller Sitana with long limbs, 
but I doubt that the larger form, for which he proposes the name Deccanen- 
sis, is really specifically distinct from Ponticeriana. I collected hundreds of 
them, in all sizes from 3 to 8 inches ; they are all of the same type, as those 
I received from Ceylon and from South India, and I find the fore limb 
scarcely ever reaches the vent, while the hind-limb extends usually beyond 
the snout, except in a few full grown specimens. 
Chaeasia, Oeiocalotes and Oeiotiaeis. 
The name Charasia has been proposed by Gray (Lizards Brit. Mus., 
1845, p. 246) for the South Indian species, Ch. dorsalis, as type. I have 
examined numerous well preserved specimens of this and of another species 
inhabiting the greater portion of Central, and perhaps also of Northern, 
India, and this induces me to propose a somewhat different definition of the 
genus. t . 
Char. Body elongate, somewhat depressed, covered with imbricate, 
or subimbricate, keeled scales, between which some slightly larger ones are 
intermixed, the scales being arranged in more or less indistinct transverse 
series ; those on the lower side are often less distinctly keeled than those 
on the back ; tympanum naked ; a small tubercular spine at the posterior 
end of the supraciliary edge ; some spines above the tympanum ; nuchal 
and dorsal crest present, but low ; (generally) a fold across the throat ; scales 
on the tail subimbricate, not arranged in regular cross series ; (no distinct 
gular sac, no femoral, or preanal pores) . 
Charasia must bo classed next to Trapelus, to which it is very nearly allied. 
Sab.— Terrestrial, generally found between blocks of gneissose rocks. 
The distinctive points in the structure of Charasia are 1st, the 
presence of a small tubercular spine on the hinder supraciliary edge ; 2nd, 
the presence of some slightly larger scales intermixed between the smaller 
ones at the side of the body. It is true that these larger scales are very 
difficult to trace in Ch. dorsalis, but I have observed them in various young 
and old specimens. Were it not that they are, as a rule, better developed 
