300 CLASS XV. 



Sp. Moloch horridtis; New Holland. Comp. Dumbbil, Catalogue de la Col- 

 lection des Rept. Paris, 1 85 1, pp. 109, no. 



Stellio Daud. Head covered witli numerous small scutella, 

 spinose, short. Canine teeth distinct; palatine teeth none. Nostrils 

 lateral, under a crest running from the eye to the snout. Back 

 covered with small scales and some larger, tuberculate, scattered, 

 furnished with a longitudinal fold on each side between the legs. 

 Femoral pores none, anal distinct. Tail verticillate with large 

 keeled scales. 



Sp. Stellio vulgaris Daud., Lacerta stellio L., Agama cordylea Merr., Tour- 

 NEFORT Voyage du Levant, Lyon, 171 7, i. p. 373, Ruppell Atlas zu der 

 Reise in nordl. Afrika, Rept, Tab. 2, Guerin Iconogr., Rept. PI. 6, fig. 2 

 (the head); found in Egypt, Asia Minor and Greece; in the sixteenth 

 century (according to Belon, Observations de plusieurs singidarites, pp. 114, 

 131) the excrement of this animal was used as a paint for the face, under 

 the name of Stercus Lacerti or Crocodilea. In the same way the ancients 

 made use of the excrement of the land-crocodile, or Varanus scincus ; see 

 above, p. 297 ^. 



Uromastix Meiir. Head obtuse, covered with numerous very 

 small scutella. Canine teeth not distinct; superior incisors con- 

 crete in adults; apex of lower jaw edentulous. Back covered with 

 very small, smooth scales. Femoral pores. Tail depressed at the 

 base, broad, covered above with large, aculeate, verticillate scales. 



Sp. Uromastix spinipes Merr., Geoffr. Rej^t. d'Egypte, PI. 2, fig. 2 ; Cuv. 

 R. Ani., ed. ill., Rept. PI. 13, fig. 2. — Urom. Hardwichii Gray, Uromastix 

 reticulatus Guer. Iconogr., Rept. PI. 6, fig. 4, &c. The tail of this animal 

 has some conformity with that of Zonuriis. 



Leiolepis Cuv. Head and back covered Avith very small, 



granular scales ; scales of abdomen smooth, transverse. Tail very 



long, thick at the base, suddenly becoming slender, and running into 



a filiform extremity. Row of pores along the whole inner side of 



thigh. 



Sp. Leiolepis guttatus Cuv., Guerin Iconogr., Rept. PL 7, fig. 2. Sumatra 

 (and Cochin-China?). 



Phrynocephalus Kaup. Head short, obtuse, almost circular. 

 Membrane of tympanum concealed. Nostrils in the margin of 



colorque 

 Stcrcore fucat us crocodili. 



HoRAT., Epodon, XII. 10, 11. 



