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ANNULATED CHALCIDES. 

 Chalcide. Cepede mip. p. 443. 



THIS, which is described by the Count de Ce- 

 pede, under the name of Chalcide, appears ex- 

 tremely nearly allied to the former, but instead of 

 having imbricated fish-like scales, as in that ani- 

 mal, it is marked into a continued series of annuli 

 throughout its whole length, the scales being- 

 square instead of rounded. The specimen de- 

 scribed was of a dark colour, with a brassy cast : 

 the body measured two inches six lines in length, 

 being somewhat shorter than the tail : the feet 

 still shorter than in the former species, measuring 

 scarcely more than a line in length, and being all 

 tridactyle : the number of annuli on the body was 

 forty-eight. The native country of this kind 

 seems unknown. 



SERPENT LIZARD. 



Lacerta Serpens. L. capite corpore caudaque continuis cylindricis, 



pedibus minimis, remutmimis, pentadactylis unguiculatis. Lin. 



Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1078. Block. Beschr. der Berl. Naturf. 



2. p. 28. t. 2. 

 Lizard with head, body, and tail of a continued cylindric form, 



and very small, remote, pentadactyle feel. 

 .Anguis quadrupes. A. pedibus qvatuor. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 390. 



THIS, which is a native of Java, measures about 

 five inches and a half in length, and is entirely 



