VARIEGATED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Teguixin. L. tariegata, cauda tereti longa, latcriLus 



subrugosis, collo subtm plica triplid. 

 Variegated Lizard, with long round tail, somewhat wrinkled 



sides, and a triple plait under the throat. 

 Lacerta Teguixin. L. cauda tereti longa, sutura laterali plicata. 



Lin. Syst. Naf. p. 368. 



Lacerta Tecuixin seu Tejuguacu. Seb. 1. p. 96. f. 1, 2, 3. 

 Lacerta Tejuguacu. Seb. 1. t. 99./. 1, 2. 

 Sauveguard. Mer, Surin. t. 70. 



THIS, which is by far the largest in this division 

 of the genus, sometimes exceeds the Guana in 

 size. It has been extremely well represented in 

 some of the plates of Seba, as well as by the cele- 

 brated Madam Merian, who has given a figure of 

 it at the end of her splendid work on the insects 

 of Surinam. 



The head is covered, as in the Green Lizard, 

 with large scales or plates ; the body with small 

 and somewhat square scales, which are so dis- 

 posed as to mark the sides into numerous tapering 

 annuli or striae, passing from the back perpendi- 

 cularly downwards, and from the sides perpen- 

 dicularly upwards, the narrow end of each row 

 alternating with the broader end of the opposite 

 one ; and in the younger specimens a kind of 

 plaited appearance, or continued lateral wrinkle 

 appears to pass along each side of the animal : 

 the tail, which is very long, is surrounded by 

 extremely numerous rings of small square scales, 

 and tapers to a slender point. The colour, in the 



