AGAMA CELATICEPS.
. Rep tiba,,Hate 74. AGAMA CiELATICEPS— S m it h .
R e p t il ia .— P l a t e L X X IY .
A. superne flavo-brunnea, brunneo-riibro fasoiata; iufra subflava maculis parvis nigro-brunneis variegatis;
capitis squamis cielatis.
Longitudo h nasi apice ad basin caudaa 5 unc.caucUe 3. unc.
C o l o u r .—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 especially
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
tail 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.
F o rm , &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, prominent,
and irregular at the sides ; the upper surface towards the nose is
slightly convex, between the eyes concave, the superciliary ridges being prominent
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 cantlms 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, tympanum
deep, but distinctly visible; anterior extremities rather slender ; the