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TROPIDOLEPI S.—Ci(vier, Dumeril. 



Genus Tropidolbpis. — Characters. Head short, flattened above, rounded in 

 front, occipital plate large; no palate teeth; neck below smooth, but with an oblique 

 depression on each side; body large, depressed, and covered with imbricated and 

 carinated scales; neither dorsal nor caudal crest. 



TROPIDOLEPIS UNDULATUS.— ^osc. 



Plate VIII. 



Characters. Head short, triangular, rounded in front; body short, thick, 

 depressed, covered with carinated and imbricated scales, and marked with trans- 

 verse undulatinjT black bands. 



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Stnonymes. Stellio undulatus, Lair., Hist Nat. Rept, torn. ii. p. 40, MSS. from Bosc. 

 Agama undulata, Daud., Hist. Nat. des Rept, torn. iii. p. 3S4. 

 Uromastix undulatus, Merr., Versuch eines Syst. der Rept, p. 57. 

 Stellio undulatus, Bosc, Nouv. Diet d'Hist Nat, torn. xxi. p. 527. 



Lacerta fosciata, et hyacinthena, Green, Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 349. 

 Tropidolepis undulatus, Cuvier, Reg. An., torn. ii. p. 3S. 

 Tropidolepis undulatus, Gray, in Griff. An. King., vol. ix. p. 43. 

 Agama undulata, Harl., Med. and Phys. Res., p. 140. 

 Tropidolepis undulatus, Dwm. et Bibr., Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iv. p. 29S. 



Description. The head is short, triangular, rounded in front, elevated above, 



