192 REPTILES. 



14. Enyaliosaurus. Cyclura, part, Gray. 



Head with uuraerous small subequal many-sided shields, those 

 of the upper part of the nose and interparietal plate very small. 

 Throat with a lax skin, plaited across in front, but without any 

 true pouch. Palate toothed ? Teeth lobed. Back with a crest 

 of compressed scales. Toes with 3-keeled plates below. Tail 

 with alternate rings of small and large spinose scales, depressed 

 at the base, the central and 2 lateral series of scales on each side 

 (separated by 2 rows of smaller scales) larger, forming keels, the 

 end roundish, tapering, the under side of the base with rings of 

 many small scales. 



The Armed Lizard. Enyaliosaurus quinquecarinatus. Cy- 

 clura quinquecarinata. Gray, Z. M. 59. 



Olive, black-varied. 

 a. Adult ? stuffed. Demerara ? 



* Femoral pores none. Hinder toes fringed on the side, the outer 



hinder wehhed at the base. 



f Head elongate, produced behind. 



15. Basiliscus, Laur. 



Head covered with small flat rather keeled uniform scales, of 

 the occiput smaller. Occiput elongate, narrow behind, with a 

 compressed vertical triangular crest of skin. Palate toothed. The 

 throat with a slight pouch, and with a well marked cross fold. 

 Back and tail (of the males ?) with a high compressed crest, sup- 

 ported by horny rays. Scales of the back small, rhombic, smooth, 

 of the belly larger, square, smooth. Femoral pores none. Toes 

 elongate, compressed, unequal, with a series of broad scales above, 

 and rhombic truncated keeled scales on the side, with a series of 

 convex square plates beneath. The hinder toes with series of 

 thick subtubercular plates on the inner side, and with a broad sub- 

 dentate continued fringe on the outer side. The outer hinder toes 

 webbed at the base. 



The Basilic. Basiliscus Americanus, Laur. Syn. 50. La- 

 certa Basiliscus, Linn. S. N. i. 366. Sebi, i. t. 100,/. 1. Guerin, 

 Icon, t. 11,/. 2. Latr. Kept. 258. B. mitratus, Daud. Rept. iii. 

 320, t. 42. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 181. Lion Lizard, Caiesby, 

 Carol, ii. 468. 



Bluish. 

 a. Half grown, in spirits. Tropical America, Guiana ? 



16. CoRYTHiEOLus, Kaup. CEdicoryphus, Wagler. 

 Basaliscus, part, Weigm., Wagler. 



Head rather elongate, covered with small uniform keeled scales. 

 Eyebrows and back of head with rather small scales. Occiput 



