17. CHALCIDES. 403 



4. Chalcides lineatus. 



Zvgnis striata, Fifzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 63 {nomen nudum) ; Cuv. 



M.A. 2nded. ii. p. 64. 

 Seps lineatus, Leuckart, Brev. Anim. Descr. 1828, p. 10. 

 striatus, Guer. Icon. R. A., Rept. pi. xv. fig. 3 ; Oravenh. N. 



Ada Ac. Leop.- Carol, xxiii. l>*ol, i. p. 374, pi. xlii. 

 ■ chalcides, part., Dion. ^- Bibr. v. p. 709 j Schreib. Ilerp. Eur. 



p. 346; Camerano, Mon. Saur. Ital. p. 91. 

 — chalcis, Lataste, Herp. Gir. p. 93. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting ; ej-e moderate ; ear-opening 

 much larger than the nostril. Latter pierced entirely in advance of 

 the suture between the rostral and the first labial : a postnasal, ia 

 contact with the first labial only ; supranasals distinct ; frontal 

 longer than broad ; fourth labial entering the orbit. Body much 

 elongate ; limbs very small, tridactyle ; the fourth toe as long as the 

 third ; the leugth of the hind limb equals at least the distance 

 between the ear and the fore limb, and is contained twelve to four- 

 teen times in the distance from snout to vent, 22 or 24 (usually 

 22) scales round the middle of the body, perfectly smooth. Tail, 

 when intact, as long as, or a little longer than, head and body. 

 Olive or bronzy above, with nine or eleven dark brown longitudinal 

 streaks, as broad as or broader than the interspaces between them, 

 which occupy the middle of each scale. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 260 Fore limb 6 



Head 12 Hind limb 10 



^Vidth of head .... 8 TaU 134 



Body 114 



South of France, Spain, and Portugal. 



a-c. Ad. Near Nice. 



d. Ad. Orense. M. V. L, Seoane [P.]. 



e. Ad. Serra de Gerez. Dr. H. Gadow [C.]. 

 /. Ad. Oporto. W. C. Tait, Esq. [P.]. 

 g. Yg. Oporto. Dr. H. Gadow [C.]. 

 h-i. Ad. & hgr. Spanish Peninsula. P. B. AVebb, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Chalcides tridactylus. 



Seps tridactylus, Gray, Cat. p. 125. 

 Chalcides tridactyla, Laur. Syn. Rept. p. 64. 

 Chameesaura chalcis, Schtieid. Hist. Am^jh. ii. p. 206. 

 Chalcides seps, Latr. Rept. ii. p. 82. 

 Seps tridactylus, Daud. Rept. iv. p. 333, pi. Ivii. ; Gerv. Ann. Sc. 



Nat. (2) vi. 1836, p. 310. 

 chalcidica, Merr. Tent. p. 75 ; Duvern. R. A., Rept. pi. xxii. bis, 



fig. 1. 

 Zygnis chalcidica, Fitzmg. N. Class. Rept. p. 53. 

 Seps vittatus, Leuckart, Brev. Anim. Descr. p. 9. 



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