308 ANGUINE LIZARD. 



covered with imbricated scales : its colour is either 

 cinereous or pale ferruginous above, marked with 

 from fifteen to twenty dusky lines, and beneath 

 cinereous with a silvery gloss. 



ANGUINE LIZARD. 



Lacerta Anguina. L. cavda rerticillata extremo rigidula, carport 

 striato, pedibus adactylts subidatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 371. 



Lizard with long body, extremely long tail, and subulated 

 adactyle feet. 



Vcrmis serpentiformis ex Africa. Scb. 2. p. 70. t. 6&.f. 7> 8. 



DESCRIBED by Linnaeus, apparently from Seba's 

 figure, which is about fifteen inches in length, the 

 body measuring only four. The head is rather 

 small, the nose taper, the legs very short, placed 

 very near the head and vent, and apparently ter- 

 minating in one undivided toe or process : the 

 whole animal appears covered with ovate scales, 

 and is brown above, ash-coloured on the sides, 

 and yellowish beneath ; the upper surface marked 

 throughout its whole length by several dark lines 

 or stripes. Native, according to Seba, of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, where it is found in great 

 plenty in the water and about the rocks in Table 

 Bay. 



