

gg REPTILES. 



there with scales larger than the others, and sometimes spiny; small 

 groups of spines surrounding the ear; no pores on the thighs; the tail t 

 long, and terminating in a point, But one species is known. 



Lac. stellio, L. ; the Stellio of the Levant; Seb. I, cvi, f. 1, 2; 

 and better Tournef. Voy. an Lev. I, 120; and Geoff. Descr. de 

 l'Egypte, Rept. II, 3; Koscordt/los, of the modern Greeks ; Har- 

 dun of the Arabs. (The Common Stellio). A foot long; of an 

 olive colour shaded with black ; very common throughout the Levant, 

 and particularly so in Egypt. According to B61on, it is the feces 

 of this animal which are collected for the druggists under the names 

 of cordylea, crocodiled or stercus lacerti, which were formerly in 

 vogue as a cosmetic; but it would rather appear that the antients 

 attributed this name and quality to those of the Monitor. The 

 Mahometans 'kill the present Stellio wherever they see it, because, 

 as they say, it mocks them by bowing the head, as they do when at 

 prayer, 



DoRYPHORUS, CUV. 



The pores wanting as in the Stellios, but the body is not bristled with 

 small groups of spines*. 



Uromastix -j\ Cuv. — Stellions Batards, Daud. 

 Mere Stellios, whose head is not enlarged, all the scales of their body 

 being small, smooth, and uniform, and those of the tail still larger and 

 more spiny than in the common Stellio; but there are no:ie beneath. 

 There is a series of pores under their thighs. 



Stellio spinipes, Daud. ; Fouette-queue d^Egypte, Geoff. Rept. 

 d'Egyp. pi. II, f. 2. (The Common Uromastyx). Two or three 

 feet long; the body inflated; altogether of a fine grass green; small 

 spines on the thighs; the tail only spiny above. Found in the 

 deserts which surround Egypt ; it was formerly described by Belon, 

 who says, but without adducing proof, that it is the terrestrial Cro- 

 codile of the antients %. 



Agama %, Daud. 

 The Agama? bear a great resemblance to the cammon Stellios, parti- 

 cularly in their inflated head; but the scales of their tail, which are im- 



vate, or Fraud in the contract. It was probably the Tarentole, or the Gecko tubercu/eux 

 of the south of Europe, Geckotte of Laeep., as conjectured by various authors, and 

 lately by M. Schneider. There is nothing to justify its application to the present 

 species; Belon, if I am not mistaken, was the first who abused it thus. 



* Stellio brevicaudatus, Seb. If, lxxii, 6; Daud. IV, pi. 47. St. azurens, Daud,, 

 Id. 46, 



f Caudiverbera and the Greek ouromastix, are not ancient names. They were 

 Coined by Ambrnsinus lor the great Egyptian species, of which Belon had said 

 11 cauda tttrocissimi diverberare creditur, Linnaeus was the first who applied it to a 

 Gecko* and other authors ha\<' given it to different Saulians. Add, Urofri. grisens of 

 New Holland ;■— Ur. teticutatui of Bengal ; — Vr. acantinurus, Bell, Zool. Jour. I, 457, 

 if it be a distinct species. 



N.B. The flaMailed Stellio of New Holland, Daud., is a l'hyllurus. 



!: It is ., Uromasth tbai Is described by M de Lacep. Kept. II, 497, under the 

 name of QaetepakO) which is that of another Saurian, to be spoken of hereafter.— 

 Add, Ur. ornatuSf Rupp I 

 § A$ama\ from th< Greel ogams (ba heloi Why \ innseus gave this name to 



