22 LACERTADA. 
In the next figure, the under parts of a variety of the 
game species are exhibited in outline, to shew the collar, 
the abdominal plates, the pre-anal plate, those which are 
perforated by the femoral pores, and the scales of the tail. 
In the whole of the sub-family of Lacertina the head is 
covered by the number of plates designated above, differ- 
ing only in some very trifling modifications of form. The 
abdomen is covered by broad plates, as seen in the figure, 
not imbricated, or lying one over another, as are the scales 
of the back and tail, but applied to each other at the mar- 
gins; and these are arranged in longitudinal rows. There 
is in all the species a distinct collar, composed of several 
scales, larger than those which cover the throat, and quite 
detached from the plates which cover the breast, which 
they loosely overlay. The scales of the back and sides are 
small, and imbricated. Those of the tail are always ar- 
ranged in distinct and even whorls, are elongated and nar- 
row, becoming more so towards the termination of the tail. 
The femoral pores, as they are termed, exist also in all the 
family. They consist, probably, of very small follicular 
