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BIPED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Bipes. L, corpore subaquali tercti imbricato pallido, 

 squamarum singularum punctofwco, ptdibus anterioribus nuttis, 

 posteribus didactylis mat ids. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1079- 



Long-bodied cylindric pale-yellow Lizard, speckled with brown, 

 without fore-feet, and with very small didactylou* hind-feet. 



Anguis bipes. A. squamis abdominalibus 100, caudulibus 60. 

 Lin. Mus. Ad. Fid. p. 21. t. 28. /. 3. 



Serpens, &c. Seb. 1. t. 53. f. 9. Sr t. S6.f. 3. 



A SMALL species, said to be found in South 

 America and in India. Length about six inches : 

 diameter scarcely that of a goose quill : colour pale 

 yellou-, minutely speckled with brown : head 

 small; body cylindric, tail very short and taper 

 but not sharp-pointed: on each side the vent is a 

 small subulated foot, which being closely exa- 

 mined is found to be divided into two small and 

 unequal toes, without claws. This Lizard is de- 

 scribed by Linna?us in the Museum Adolphi Fri- 

 derici as a species of snake, under the title of An- 

 guis bipes. It is also figured in the same work, 

 but more elegantly in that of Seba, 



LUMBRICIFORM LIZARD. 



Lacerta Lumbricoides. L. bipes cylindrica, squamis quadratic 

 annulata, sulco later aH, pedibus posterioribus nullis. 



Two-footed cylindric Lizard, annulated with square scales, 

 with a lateral furrow and no hind feet. 



Le Cannelle. Cepede ffcip. p. 6 13. pi. 41. 



Lacerta Lumbricoides. Lumbriciform Lizard. Nat. 3/c. 

 vol. 6. ft. 212. 



NATIVE of Mexico. First described by the 

 Count de Cepede in his History of Oviparous 



