210 AMERICAN GALEOTE. 



rats, and to fight with small serpents in the man- 

 ner of the common Green Lizard and some 

 others. 



AMERICAN GALEOTE. 



Lacerta Agama. L. cauda tereti longa, collo supra capiteque pos~ 

 tice aculeato, occipitis squamis recersis. Un. Syst. Nat. p. 367. 



Lizard with long round tail ; the neck above and the head be- 

 hind aculeated ; the scales of the hind-head reversed. 



Salamandra Americana, &c. Seb. 1. p. 169. t. 107. 



THIS is in some respects allied to the Calotes, 

 but differs in wanting the very conspicuous dor- 

 sal serratures, instead of which it has only a small 

 denticulated carina on that part : the head is 

 larger in proportion, and is covered on the back 

 part with elongated or sharp-pointed scales, some 

 of which are more or less reversed at their extremi- 

 ties : the body is coated with small scales, with 

 several larger ones of a rounded form scattered 

 here and there on the sides : the tail is long, and 

 verticillated with stages of sharp-pointed scales : 

 the whole animal is of a less slender and elegant 

 aspect than the preceding, and is commonly of a 

 brown or lead-coloured cast, clouded here and 

 there with deeper and lighter variegations. It is 

 a native of South America and some of the West- 

 Indian islands, and sometimes grows to a very 

 considerable size. The male is said to differ from 

 the female in having the dorsal crest composed of 

 longer spines, extending almost to the lower part 



