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FOUR-STRIPED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Quadrilineata. L. cauda tereti hnga, pedibus subungui- 

 culatis, palmis tetradactytis, corpore lineis quatuorjlavis. Lin. 

 Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1076. 



Blackish-blue Lizard, with tetradactyle fore-feet, long rounded 

 tail, and four white or yellowish lines down the back. 



CLOSELY allied to the Lemniscata, but a much 

 smaller species : colour blackish blue, with four 

 white or yellowish bands down the back : fore 

 feet tetradactyle ; hind feet pentadactyle : claws 

 very small : tail long and taper. Described by 

 Linnaeus in the Museum Adolphi Friderici. Sup- 

 posed to be a native of North America. 



RIBBON LIZARD. 



Lacerta Taeniblata. L. cauda tereti longa, corpore supra fcraioSs 



albis nigrisqitf, subtus albo. 

 Lizard with long round tail, and body marked above with black 



and white stripes ; beneath white. 

 Ribbon Lizard. White's Journ. of Voy. to N. S. Wales, p. 24o. 



pi. 32. 



A SMALL species, much allied to Fasciata and 

 others of this division : covered entirely with 

 smooth, rounded, imbricated scales on all parts: 

 colour chesnut brown above ; pale or whitish be- 

 neath : on the back from the head to the middle of 

 the tail six narrow white linear stripes, the inter- 

 mediate spaces of the central and lowermost stripes 



