G E R R H O S A U R U S F L A V T G U L A R I S (A a d u l t B Y o u n g |
R e p t il ia .— P l a t e XXXVII.
G. supeme flavo-briinneus, lines! flava pone oculos incipiente et linea nigra in utroque latere marginata,
ilia versus apicem caudse, his pone basin caudee desinentibus; dorsi partibus mediis nigro brunneo
variegatis et flavo-punctatis; corporis lateribus griseo-brunneis, nigro brunneo-maculatis et flavo-
fasciolatis; mento gulaque fla vis; pectore abdomineque coeruleo-albis; scuto occipitale rhombica.
Longitudo k naso ad basin caudee, 3 unc. 6 lin.; caudee, 8 unc.
Cicigna Sepiformis, Gray, Synops. Rept. Griff. Animal Kingdom of Cuvier, vol. 9.
Scincus Sepiformis, Merrem, Yersuch ein Syst. der Amphib, page 70.
Pleurotetjciius Chrysobronchus et Dejardinii, Smith, Mag. of Zool. and Botany, vol. i. p. 143, et seq.
Gerrhosaurtjs Ocellatus, Coct. Magaz. Zool. Guer, cl. Ill, pi. 4, et pi. 6, fig. 1.
C o l o u r .— The upper surface of the head, the back, and the tail superiority
deep yellowish brown, the apical portion of the latter lightest; on the
back and tail the ground colour is broken by various variegations partly
yellow and partly liver-brown, on the middle of the back and base of the
tail these variegations consist of one, two, or more series of small square
yellow spots, each either placed upon a liver-brown bar or spot, or edged on
both its sides with that colour. On the edges of the back and tail the same
colours constitute the variegations, but instead of being in spots or bars they
are in narrow longitudinal lines commencing near the outer angle of the eye
and terminating beyond the last half of the tail; these lines are three in
number on each side, viz.:—the middle one yellow, and the outer and inner ones
liver-brown. On the tail these lines are rather indistinct and often broken.
The sides of the body from the eyes backwards are greyish brown, profusely
variegated with spots and irregular vertical stripes of yellow and liver-
brown. Outer surface of fore legs light yellowish brown freckled with
minute, umber-brown and yellowish white spots; the outer surface of hinder
legs purplish brown and freckled with the same colours and in the same