226 REPTILES. 



The DoRYPHOEE. Uranocentron azureura. Lacerta azurea, 

 Linn. S N. 362. Seba, ii. t. 62,/. 6. Daud. R. iv. 36. Cuv. R. A. 

 ii. 34. Guerin, Icon. Rept. t. 6,f. 3. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iv. 371, 

 t. 42, f. 2. Stellio brevicauda, Latr. Rept. ii. 29, t. /.I. Daud. 

 R. iv. 40, t. 47. 



Azure, with black cross bands, and with black netted lines on 

 the limbs. 



Inhab. Brazils. Mus. Col. Surg., Mus. Paris. 



48. Phrymaturus, Gravenh. Centrura, Bell. 



Head short, triangular, covered with small, round, not imbri- 

 cate scales. Ears large, with a fold in front, scarcely toothed, 

 partly hidden. Nostrils large, rounded. Eyebrows covered with 

 small granular scales. Throat with a slight cross fold. Neck 

 and body scarcely crested. Body depressed, broad, covered with 

 very small, round, rather convex, smooth scales. Sides with a 

 longitudinal fold of skin. Tail round, rather depressed at the 

 base, with whorls of spinose scales. Femoral pores none, but the 

 males with a series of pores a little distance in front of the vent, 

 and one or two on the edge of the cloaca itself. Palate toothed. 



The preanal pores are not mentioned by either Gravenhorst or 

 Bell. 



The Palluma. Phiymaturus Palluma, Gravenh. Act. Nat. 

 Cur. 1837, xviii. 750, t. 55, f. 2. Lacerta Palluma, Molina Sag- 

 gio. Daud. Rept. iv. 46. Centrura flagellifer, Bell, Zool. Beagle, 

 Rept. 25, t. 13, f. 2. 



Greyish green, black spotted, beneath greenish white; scales 

 of the tail moderate. 



a. In spirits. Discoloured. Body swollen, sides simple, vent 



with a series of pores in front. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's 

 collection. 



b. In spirits. Body depressed, with a large fold formed of the 

 loose skin upon each side, femoral and preanal pores none. 

 Chili. Presented by C. Darwin, Esq. 



Centrura flagellifer, Bell, Zool. Beagle, Rept. 25, t. 13,/. 2. 



49. Callisaurus, jBZainv. Hypsibates, Weigm.l 



Head short, depressed, rounded in front, covered with unequal 

 plates, a very dilated interparietal plate, and broad square supra- 

 ocular shields. Nostrils on the muzzle. Palate toothless. Teeth 

 simple, conical. Throat w'ith a longitudinal and hinder trans- 

 verse fold. Neck with cross folds on the side. Ear-hole simple. 

 Body depressed, with a slight fold of skin upon the lower part of 

 each side. Scales of the body small, numerous, close, imbricate, 



