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and somewhat alternate bands either of black or 

 very deep blue; but this is most conspicuous in 

 the smaller specimens or varieties. It also ap- 

 pears to be sometimes met with of a plain colour, 

 or with only a pair of fasciae on the upper parts of 

 the body, as in the specimen figured on the an- 

 nexed plate. The head is rather obtuse ; the body 

 moderately thick, and covered as well as the limbs, 

 with very small smooth scales : the tail, on the 

 contrary, which is of moderate length, is very dis- 

 tinctly and strongly verticillated by rows of large 

 carinated scales, the extremities of which project 

 considerabty, so as to form so many spiny points. 

 In the smaller fasciated varieties the tail is shorter 

 in proportion than in larger plain ones. A beautiful 

 specimen of this kind, of the length of a very few 

 inches, occurs in the Leveiian Museum. 



The large variety is a native of South America : 

 the smaller of many parts of Africa. 



CORDYLE LIZARD. 



Lacerta Cordylus. L. cauda vertkillata breci, sqnamis denticu- 

 latis, corpore favigato. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 36l. 



Lizard with smooth body, and short tail verticillated with den- 

 ticulated scales. 



Lacertus Africanus cauda spinosa. Seb. 1. p. 136. t. 84. f. 3, 4. 



Lacerta nigra Africana. Seb. 2. p. 62. t. 62. f. 5. 



THE Cordyle Lizard is so nearly allied to the 

 Azurea, that on a cursory view it might easily be 

 mistaken for the same species. It differs, how- 



