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TROPIDOLEPIS .—Cuvicr. Dumeril cl Bihron. 



Genus Tropidolepis. — Characters. Head short, sub-triangular, rounded in 

 front, and covered with small plates; no palatine teeth; tongue obtuse in front, 

 slightly notched, covered with minute papillae; lips furnished with a double series 

 of oblong plates; nostrils open in a single plate, surrounded by smaller scales; 

 tympanum depressed in the meatus, which has its anterior border more or less 

 dentated; neck below smooth, but with an oblique depression on each side; body 

 short, depressed, and covered with large, carinated and imbricated scales above, 

 and with smooth plates on the abdomen; tail very long, large, and depressed at its 

 base, rounded towards its tip; neither dorsal nor caudal crest; there are femoral, 

 but no anal pores. 



TROPIDOLEPIS UNDULATUS.— jBosc. 



Plate IX. 



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

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

 verse undulating black bands. 



Synonymes. Stellio undulatus, LatreUh, Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. ii. p. 40, MSS. from Bosc. 

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

 Urotriastix undulatus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 57. 

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

 Lacerta fasciata, et hyacinthina, Green, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Piiilad., vol. i. p. 349. 

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