. Zoology of Egypt. btusely pointed. Dorsalscales strongly tricarinate; the nuchals with 4 or 5 feeble carina?. Thirty-fiveto forty-two scales round the middle of the body; the median dorsal scales arethe largest. The fore limb when laid forwards reaches to nearly the nostril ormay fall short of that distance ; the hind limb is generally longer than the intervalbetween the axilla and the groin, but not unfrequently shorter; digital lamella:o-enerally smooth, but occasionally with a feeble mesial keel. Tail variable, onceand a half to once and two-thirds as long as the body and head. Brown abov
. Zoology of Egypt. btusely pointed. Dorsalscales strongly tricarinate; the nuchals with 4 or 5 feeble carina?. Thirty-fiveto forty-two scales round the middle of the body; the median dorsal scales arethe largest. The fore limb when laid forwards reaches to nearly the nostril ormay fall short of that distance ; the hind limb is generally longer than the intervalbetween the axilla and the groin, but not unfrequently shorter; digital lamella:o-enerally smooth, but occasionally with a feeble mesial keel. Tail variable, onceand a half to once and two-thirds as long as the body and head. Brown above, with five yellow or whitish longitudinal bands, three dorsal and twolateral, continued on to the base of the tail, and all more or less margined with dark bars or spots, more or less surrounded with white, occur behind the ear on thearea between the upper and lower lateral white bands ; they are intensely deep bluishblack in the male during the breeding-season, when the whole under surface of the head. < co 5 1 -< e MABUIA QUINQUET^ENIATA. 189 from the chin to the chest and the sides of the neck are intensely black, more or lessspotted with bluish or bluish white, and the lower yellowish-white longitudinal bandwhich begins at the sides of the nostril is, occasionally, orange-yellow as far back asthe shoulder, suffused with blue and spotted with yellow. The five yellowish dorsalbands, frequently in adults and more especially in males, become entirely lost oronly faintly indicated. The young are always longitudinally banded. The femalesare always much less intensely coloured than the males, and the throat is neverblack but is generally spotted with dusky blue or brownish purple. Upper surfacesof the limbs usually uniform brown, but spotted with yellow in breeding surface generally yellowish white, with occasionally some bluish spots on thesides of the belly, but in half-grown specimens and in the young, immaculate upper surface of the ta
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