fReptilia_Plate 29.) • CORDYLUS CATAPHRACTUS.—Gray.
QO Rd y l u s c a t a p h r a c t i:
R eptilia.—P late XXIX.
C. supeme pallide flavo-brunneus, dorsi medio leviter viridi-tincto ; partibus inferioribus brunno-rubria
flavo nebulatis ; gulâ guttureque profunde brunneis flavo maculatis ; extremitatibus caudâque flavo-
brunneis.
L o n g it u d o e naso ad basin caudæ 5 une. ; caudæ 7 une.
C o r d y l u s CATAPHRACTUS, Gray.
C o r d y lu s m a c u l o su s, Smith, Magazine of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 31.
Z o n u r u s c a t a p h r a c t u s , Dum. and Bib. Erpetol. Général, vol. v. fol. 355.
Colour.—The upper and lateral parts of the head and body intermediate
between yellow and orange-coloured brown, darkest on the upper
surface of the head, particularly towards the nose, the middle of the back
faintly tinted with green. Tail and extremities clear yellowish brown. The
belly and under surface of tail dull brownish red, clouded with dirty light
yellow ; space between rami of lower jaw and also the throat umber-brown,
spotted with king’s-yellow.
F orm, &c.—Head rather large and much depressed, its sides anteriorly
nearly perpendicular, posteriorly convex, and laterally very protuberant ;
neck narrower than the head ; body depressed and subovate ; tail thick at
the base, acute at the point. The upper surface of the head is flat, the plates
covering it finely granular, and the shape of each will be best comprehended
from an examination of Plate XXX. figs. 9 and 9 a, The scales of the
temples are large, irregular-shaped, and tubercular, some of them almost
keeled, and the hinder ones, which overlap the external ear, are prolonged so
as to form acute spiny points. Labial scales of upper jaw six, the last three
tubercular and carinated; those of lower jaw five, the last two horizontally
compressed, thin and highly keeled. Nostrils near the apex of the muzzle
each small, circular and opening in the centre of the naso-nostral plate, which
is prominent and hemispherical. The sides and upper surface of the neck