LIZARDS. 49 



The False Cordyle. Pseudocordylus microlepidotus. Zo- 

 nurus Wittii, Schlegel, Zon. t. 7,f 1. Cordyliis microlepidotus, 

 Cuv. R. A. ii. 33. Guerin, Icon. t. 6,/. 1. Illust. S. Afiic. Zool. 

 t. 24 — 27,/. 1 ; t. 30,/. 1 — 5. C. montanus, C. fasciatus, C. me- 

 lanotus, C. alo:oensis, C. siihviridis, A. SiJiith, Mag. N. H. ii. 22. 

 Z. Davyi, Graij, Ann. N. H. i. 388 ? 



Ventral shields 12 or 14.rowed ; femoral pores in 3 rows. 



a. Adult, in spirits. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



C. fasciatus, A. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. t. 27,/. I, t. 30,/. 5. 



b, c. Adult, stuffed. S. Africa. From the S. African Museum. 



b. Tail unarmed. Head pyramidical. Tongue imhncately scaly. 

 Supranasal none ; nasals small, contiguous. Ear with a plate 

 in front. Cicignina. 



* Toes 5-0 or 4-4. Femoral pores numerous. 



5. Platysaurus, a. Smith. 



Head depressed. Frontonasals contiguous; parietal plates 

 distinct, equal, forming a square shield; fronto-parietal and pal- 

 pebral plates edged with rows of narrow plates. Teeth short, nu- 

 merous. Nostrils lateral. Ears open, oblong. Gular collar 

 rudimentary. Body depressed. Scales of back very small. Ab- 

 dominal shields quadrangular. Femoral pores small. Limbs 4. 

 Toes 5-5, unequal. Tail round, tapering, unarmed. 



The Cape Platysaure. Platysaurus capensis, ^. *SW^/i, 7//. 

 Zool. S. Africa, Rept. t. 40. 



Grey brown, with 3 white streaks, beneath greenish yellow. 

 Inhab. S. Africa. Great Namaqua Land. Mus. Dr. A. Smith. 



6. CiciGNA, Gray. Gerrhosaurus, Weigmann. 



Head 4-sided ; fronto-nasal distinct ; fronto-parietal and pari- 

 etals united on each side; interparietal small, central, or wanting; 

 temple shielded. Palate not toothed. Nostrils lateral, between 

 the upper labial and an anterior and posterior shield. Eyelids 

 distinct. Ears with a plate in front. Scales of the back square, 

 in cross series. Body fusiform. Toes 5-5, unequal, compressed, 

 smooth beneath. Femoral pores distinct. Tail rather compress- 

 ed, unarmed. 



* Inteiparietal none. 



The Two-streaked Cicigna. Cicigna Madagascarensis, 

 Gray, Griffith. A. K. ix. 64. Gerrhosaurus bifasciatus, Dum. et 

 Bib. E. G. V. 375, ^ 47. A. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. t. 42, f. 

 25—27. 



Olive, with a black-edged white streak ; scales of the back in 

 24 cross rows, finely striated, with a very small central keel ; 2 

 small shields between the second pair of submaxillary. 



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