LIZARDS. 



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** No circular plate under the ear. Iguana. 



The Naked-necked Iguana. Iguana delicatissima, Laur. S. 

 R. 48.' Seba, Thes. i. t, 96,/. 5 (not iMtr.) Wagler, Sijs. 148. £ich. 

 Z. S. iii. 103. I. nudicollis, Cuv. R. A. ii. 40. Guerin, Icon. R. 

 L 11, /. 1. Gray, Griffith, A. K. ix. 37. Dum. et Bib. E. G. 

 iv. 208. 



Head with a series of large scales on each branch of the lower 

 jaw, and without any large circular plate under the ear; scales of 

 the neck equal. 



Inhab. Tropical America. 



7. Aloponotus, Dum. et Bib. 



Head with small equal flat many-sided plates. Lower jaw 

 with small scales on the sides. Palate toothed. Throat with a 

 small pouch, simple in front. Teeth 3-lobed. Back and tail with 

 a low crest. Skin of the back scaleless, covered with much crowd- 

 ed very minute granules. Tail compressed, with whorls of large 

 equal keeled scales. Femoral pores in 2 series. 



The Aplonote. Aloponotus Ricardi, Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 



190, t. 38. 



Blackish, with many square fulvous spots. 

 Inhab. St. Domingo. Mus. Paris, 1 specimen. 



** Throat rather dilated, not pouched. The middle hinder toes 

 ivith triangular horny processes on the inner side. 



f Tail with unarmed scales. 



8. Brachylophus, Cuvier. 



Head-shields very small, polygonal, equal, flat. Sides of low- 

 er jaw with small equal scales. Skin of throat lax, rather pen- 

 dant, longitudinal. Scales of the back small, square, keeled, of 

 the belly, "palm and soles larger, keeled. Dorsal crest low, con- 

 tinued. ' Teeth toothed on each side. Palate toothed. Tail very 

 long, very slender, not crested, tapering, rounded, compressed at 

 the base, with small equal keeled imbricate scales. Femoral 

 pores in a single series, each in the back edge of a scale. Toes 

 with rather angular smooth cross plates beneath, the two middle 

 hinder toes with triangular horny appendages on the inner edge. 



Cuvier by mistake says this genus has no palatine teeth, — R. 

 A. ii. 41. 



The Banded Brachylophe. Brachylophus fasciatus, Cuvier, 

 R. A. ii. 41. Guerin, Icon. Rept. t. 9./. 1. Gray, Griffith, A. K. 

 ix. 37. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 227. Iguana fasciata, Brong. Bui. 

 Sci. Phil. 36, t. 6,f. 1. Class. Rent. 34, t. \, f. 5. Daud, Rept. 

 iii. 352. 



