CORDYLUS FASCIATUS.—S m it h .
R e p t il ia . P late XXVII. F ig . 1.
C. supeme nigro-brunneus, dorso maculis flavis fere confluentis in ordinibus transversis variegato ; caudâ
supeme flavo-maculatâ ; gulâ livido-cæruleâ ; gutture ventreque viridi-flavis ; caudâ inferne sub-
flavâ ; capitis lateribus postice squamis tribus tuberculosis armatis, super aurem externam porrectis.
Longitüdo e naso ad basin caudæ 4 une. 4 lin.; caudæ 5 une. 2 lin.
Cordylüs (psEUDOCORDYLüs) fasciattjs, Smith, Mag. of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 32.
Cordylus MiCROLEPEDOTüs, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. Général, tom. v. p. 361.
Colour, &c .—The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides
and the upper and lateral parts of the tail liver-brown, with ochreous or
cream-yellow variegations, the liver-brown lightest on the head. The yellow
variegations of the upper surface of the head consist of narrow, irregular,
broken stripes, principally on the sides towards the nose ; on the neck and
back they are in the form of quadrangular spots, disposed in transverse
rows, varying in each from eight to ten in number; on the sides the yellow
occurs as a waved longitudinal line, and on the tail it is in large, irregular-
shaped, spots arranged in two rows, one row along each upper angle.
F orm, &c^j#-Head rather large, neck narrower than the hind head, body
rather bulky and subcylindrical; the tail depressed at the base, and cylindrical
near the point. The upper surface of the head flat and faintly rugose, the
shape of the plates represented in Plate XXX., Fig. 5. The sides of the head
before the anglesof the mouth nearly perpendicular, and the temples convex and
bulging ; the posterior edge of each armed with three tubercular and somewhat
pointed scales (PlateXXX. fig. 5a)1, which project outwards and backwards over
the external ear ; the other scales on the temples of two descriptions, those
towards the centre large, flat, and irregular, in form; those around the edges
small, granular, and somewhat keeled. Scales of the upper lip six in number,
not reckoning the rostral one ; the hindermost somewhat keeled, those of the