300 CLASS XV. 



. Sp. Moloch horridiis; New Holland. Comp. DUME"RIL, Catalogue de la Col- 

 lection des Rept. Paris, 1851, pp. 109, no. 



Stellio DAUD. Head covered with numerous small scutella, 

 spinose, short. Canine teeth distinct; palatine teeth none. Nostrils 

 lateral, under a crest running from the eye to the snout. Back 

 covered with small scales and some larger, tuberculate, scattered, 

 furnished with a longitudinal fold on each side between the legs. 

 Femoral pores none, anal distinct. Tail verticillate with large 

 keeled scales. 



Sp. Stellio vulgaris DAUD., Lacerta stellio L., Agama cordylea MERR., TOUR- 

 NEFORT Voyage du Levant, Lyon, 1717, I. p. 373, RUPPELL Atlas zu der 

 Reise in nordl. Afrika, Rept. Tab. 2, GUERIN Iconogr., Rept. PI. 6, fig. 2 

 (the head); found in Egypt, Asia Minor and Greece; in the sixteenth 

 century (according to BELON, Observations deplusieurs singularites, pp. 114, 

 131) the excrement of this animal was used as a paint for the face, under 

 the name of Stercus Lacerti or Crocodilea. In the same way the ancients 

 made use of the excrement of the land-crocodile, or Varanus scincus see 

 above, p. 297 *. 



Uromastix MERR. Head obtuse, covered with numerous very 

 small scutella. Canine teeth not distinct; superior incisors con- 

 crete in adults; apex of lower jaw edentulous. Back covered with 

 very small, smooth scales. Femoral pores. Tail depressed at the 

 base, broad, covered above with large, aculeate, verticillate scales. 



Sp. Uromastix spinipes MERR., GEOFFR. Rept. tfEyypte, PI. 2, fig. 2 ; Cuv. 

 R. Ani., ed. ill., Rept. PI. 13, fig. 2. Urom. HardwicUi GRAY, Uromastix 

 reticulatus GUER. Iconogr., Rept. PI. 6, fig. 4, &c. The tail of this annual 

 has some conformity with that of Zonurus. 



Leiolepis Cuv. Head and back covered with very small, 

 granular scales ; scales of abdomen smooth, transverse. Tail very 

 long, thick at the base, suddenly becoming slender, and running into 

 a filiform extremity. Row of pores along the whole inner side of 

 thigh. 



Sp. Leiolepis guttatus Cuv., GUERIN Iconogr., Rept. PI. 7, fig. 2. Sumatra 

 (and Cochin-China ?). 



PJirynocepJialus KAUP. Head short, obtuse, almost circular. 

 Membrane of tympanum concealed. Nostrils in the margin of 



1 coloi'que 



Stercore fucatus crocodili. 



HORAT., Epodon, xn. 10, n. 



