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Show 1878.] COL. R. H. BEDDOME ON A N E W TREE-LIZARD. 153 RHYPARIDA NIGRICOLLIS, P.Z.S. 1877, p. 513. These three species, described by me under the generic name of Rhyparida, belong, as subsequent studies have convinced me, to the genus Syagrus of Chapuis. 8. Description of a new Genns of Tree-Lizards from the higher Ranges of the Anamallays. By Lieut.-Colonel R. H . B E D D O M E , C.M.Z.S. [Received January 12, 1878.] (Plate XIV.) LOPHOSALEA, nov. gen. Gen. Char. N o femoral pores, no lateral wings, tympanum naked ; crest of the back and anterior portion of the tail very high, the lobes separate ; scales of the back and sides large, irregular, imbricate, sub-equal in size, but mixed with a few small scales, strongly keeled, the tips directed backwards; a few trihedral or spinous scales above the tympanum ; a large gular sac; tail of moderate length, very much compressed ; all the scales keeled, the lower ones very prominently. LOPHOSALEA ANAMALLAYANA, sp. nov. (Plate XIV.) Three large scales between the base of the orbit and the top of the tympanum; the last of which is much raised and subtrihedral ; a spine behind the tympanum, and another between it and the commencement of the nuchal crest; crown of head concave; the rostral shield is subvertical and over the first labial only (not horizontal and over the first and second labials as in Salea) a few large trihedral scales form a semicircle across the occipital region in front of the nuchal crest; seven or eight upper labials, the last very small; seven lower labials ; tympanum large ; eye rather small, eyelid large and scaly as in Salea; longitudinal series of quadrangular scales on each side of the gular sac, nuchal crest composed of two small and four large scales, the interspace between this and the dorsal crest very small and occupied by three small crest-scales; the dorsal and subcaudal crest is composed of twenty-eight large thin erect somewhat crimped scales one half an inch in length, and extends along more than one half the length of the tail. Head much narrowed in front, somewhat elongate and pointed as in Cophotis ; the hind leg, if laid forward, only reaches the shoulder ; toes with carinated transverse plates below, the third and fourth toes are very long, the fourth being a little the longer ; length of body 4 | inches, of tail 7| inches; colour of body fawn with irregular transverse bars of white, edged and intermixed with black, three across the body and eight across the tail, a white band along the labials and from the angle of the mouth to the shoulder ; belly white. Hab. Anamallay Mountains, 6000 feet-a very rare lizard. |
