. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ith numerous large, equal, roundish, whitespots. Hab. Fernando Po; Old Calabar {Murray). One of the Museum specimens has two dark spots in front of theupper part of the nose over the nostrils. Is this a sexual character? 4. Microsaura. The occiput much narrowed and compressed behind, flat above,with a slightly raised central keel; the side of the occiput with asmooth space, separated from the smooth temple by a central nodulousridge (as in Lophosaura). Back and chin with a crest of small com-pressed scales. Belly not
. The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . ith numerous large, equal, roundish, whitespots. Hab. Fernando Po; Old Calabar {Murray). One of the Museum specimens has two dark spots in front of theupper part of the nose over the nostrils. Is this a sexual character? 4. Microsaura. The occiput much narrowed and compressed behind, flat above,with a slightly raised central keel; the side of the occiput with asmooth space, separated from the smooth temple by a central nodulousridge (as in Lophosaura). Back and chin with a crest of small com-pressed scales. Belly not dentated. Scales of body unequal; of legsequal, flat. 1. Microsaura melanocephala. White (in spirits), head and shoulders black, fore legs blackish;scales of the body granular, small, convex ; with a longitudinal seriesof large, circular, slightly raised tubercles on the middle of each side,and with a similar series of small tubercles on the sides of the middleof the back; scales of the legs larger than those of the body, flat,equal. Hab. S. Africa, Port Natal, Head of Microsaura melanocephala. 5. Phumanola. Nose and chin simple. Back with a series of large bony tuberclescovered with scales. Orbit very prominent, rounded. Occiput tri-angular, with a central nodulous ridge ; small convex scales. Scalesuniform, convex. Forehead, crown, and back of chin and belly nottoothed. Tail cylindrical, rounded above. 350 Zoological Society:— 1. PHUMANOLA NAMAQUENSIS. Chamceleo namaquensis, A. Smith, Zool. Joum. 1831 ; A. , du Mus. vi. t. 22. f. 3*. C. tuberculiferus, Gray, Cat. B. M. 267. In spirits, dark brown, paler below ; sides black-spotted, with aseries of irregular-shaped, black-edged, pale spots along the middle ;belly with a dark-edged, central, broad longitudinal band. Hab. S. Africa—Little Namaqua Land, near the mouth of theGariep or Orange River {A. Smith). 6. LOPHOSAURA. Nose simple, without appendages. Chin with a series of skinnylobules beneath.
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