CORDYLUS MICROLEPIDOTUS. A.Male.. B.Female, CYoung.
(Replilia._-Plate. 26.) ■
Reptilia.—P lates XXIV. XXV. and XXVI.
C. dor so maculis flavis in ordinibus transversis omato; cauda supeme flavo-variegata; cervice, dorso,
lateribusque squamis parvis plus minusve carinatis et in seriebus transversis, ordinatis; caudd supeme
squamis carinatis spinosis armatd; poris femoralibus verrucosis in ordinibus duabus aut tribus dis-
positis.
Coedulus microlepidotus,; Cuv. Reg. Animal. 2d Edit. vol. ii. f. 33.
CoRDYLUS MONTANUS,—MELANOTUS,---AlGOENSIS,---et SUBVIRIDIS, Smith, Mag. Nat. Hist.
vol. ii. page 32.
(V a e . Fig: A. Plate XXIV.),.;
Colour.—The upper and lateral parts of the head clear brownish red, the
former marked with a longitudinal narrow line of a pale reddish orange colour
over each eye; the sides of the head in front of the eyes and the lips pale brownish
yellow. The upper surface of the back and the tail livid brownish red,
the former variegated with short transverse stripes or spots of an ochre-yellow
colour, so disposed as to form several broken hands ;—between the hinder legs
and on the neck immediately behind the head the bands are sometimes continuous
; the sides of the upper surface of the tail are sparingly mottled with
short, narrow, yellow streaks, and a hand of the same colour is often observed
extending from the side of the neck and'arching over the base of each foreleg.
The sides of the body intermediate between gall-stone and ochre-
yellow, and vertically barred by several triangular prolongations of the dark
colour of the back, which in some specimens reach to the margin of the abdomen
; the sides and under-surface of the tail gamboge-yellow,— the former
marked with many narrow vertical liver-brown bars. Belly and under surface
of extremities intermediate between gamboge and sienna-yellow; upper surface
of extremities pale gamboge-yellow irregularly barred with reddish-
brown. The sides of the neck with two distinct and more or less vertical
spots of a darker colour than the back, and the space between the rami of the
lower jaw is a livid blue. Eyes chesnut brown.
(Vak—Fig, B. Plate XXIV.)
Colour.—The upper surface of the head and the temples chesnut-brown ;
the back orange-coloured brown variegated with transverse bars of quadran