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versity of Edinburgh mentioned that he had 

 dissected a Green Lizard brought by a botanical 

 party from the Clova mountains." Still later 

 another credible witness, the Rev. W. H. Cor- 

 deaux, gives evidence to the effect that he 

 had examined the Reptilia of the Canterbury 

 Museum, and had there found a male and female 

 of this species, but that no trustworthy informa- 

 tion could be obtained of the locality and date of 

 their capture.* In 1863 a paper was read and 

 a specimen exhibited before the Holmesdale 

 Natural History Club, at Reigate, by Mr. J. A. 

 Brewer. The specimen was caught by a labourer 

 on a bank by the side of the road, a little way 

 from Dorking, on the road to Reigate, and pur- 

 chased of him the same evening. In the course 

 of this paper Mr. Brewer remarks :f " The occur- 

 rence of this solitary specimen is not sufficient in 

 itself to establish it as a British species ; but on 

 showing it, a few days since, to Mr. John E. 

 Daniel, a well-known naturalist, and who cer- 

 tainly would not have been likely to mistake 

 this beautiful species, he informed me that a few 

 years since he had observed three or four speci- 

 mens of it on the heath, about half a mile south 

 of Wareham, in Dorsetshire, one of which he 

 captured, and is quite certain of its identity with 



* Zoologist, p. 2S55. f Ibid. p. 8639. 



