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as usual in most Lizards, larger than on the rest 

 of the animal: the tongue is large and rounded : 

 the body is covered with small subacuminated 

 scales, those on the tail being somewhat larger: 

 the limbs are rather slender, and the tail of mode- 

 rate length. Seba figures two specimens of this 

 Lizard, one of which has several rounded scales, of 

 different sizes, interspersed here and there on the 

 sides of the body, and which are not visible on 

 the other. 



This is an Asiatic species, and is also found in 

 the Indian islands. The colour of one of Seba's 

 specimens, both of which, he informs us, came 

 from Amboina, was pale yellow, tinged with blue- 

 ish variegations : the other with brown and whit- 

 ish ones. The size is that of a small Guana, mea- 

 suring from twelve to about sixteen inches from 

 the nose to the tip of the tail. 



SCUTATED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Scutata. L. cauda compressa mediocri, sutura dorsali 

 deiitata, occipite bimucronato. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 360. 



Lizard with compressed tail of middling length, dentated dorsal 

 suture, and two pointed processes at the back of the head. 



Salamandra prodigiosa Amboinensis scutata. Seb. 1. p. 173. 

 t. 109./. 3, 4. 



THE L. scutata is allied in shape, size, and ge- 

 neral appearance, to the former, but has a some- 

 what larger head in proportion. It is principally 

 distinguished by a row of scales more elevated 



