CORDYLUS GRISEUS.— Cuv. 



Reptilia. Plate XXVIII. Figs. 2 and 3. 



E. superne flavo-brunneus, subtus viride flavus ; dorso lateribusque maculis striisve brunneis variegatis ; 

 extremitatibus niaculis brunneis variis ; squamarum ordinibus viginti-septem inter nucliam et basin 

 caudae. 

 Longitudo e naso ad basin caudae 2 unc. 8 Iin.; caudae 3 unc. 4 lin. 



Cordylus griseus, niger, et dorsalis, Cuv., Regne Animal, 2d ed. torn. ii. p. 33. 

 Zonurus griseus, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. General, torn. v. fol. 351. 



Colour. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail yellowish 

 brown deadened with brownish orange, the back and sides variegated with a 

 number of irregular umber-brown blotches or short bars ; tail slightly clouded 

 or shaded with umber-brown stripes, and the extremities, particularly the 

 hinder ones, variegated sparingly with umber-brown spots ; under parts 

 greenish yellow. Eyes reddish brown. 



Var. Fig. 3. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail, also 

 the extremities bright purplish brown ; the under parts pale buff orange.* 



Form, &c. — Head rather small and subtriangular, the temples convex but 

 less prominent than in the other species ; neck as broad as the hind head ; 

 body subovate and superiorly slightly convex ; tail depressed at the base 

 cylindrical towards the point, the latter acute ; legs moderately long and 

 slender. The upper surface of the head flat and slightly granular, the 

 palpebral on the same plane with the other plates, the form of the plates repre- 

 sented in Plate XXX, fig. 8; the sides of the head anterior to the eyes nearly 

 perpendicular, the upper lip rather protuberant, the sides behind the eye (the 

 temples) slightly convex, and covered with irregular-shaped, rugose, and 



* Besides this variety several others might be described, but as each is so easily to be recognized as ap- 

 proaching one of the two kinds noticed, it is not considered necessary to instance the many individual 

 differences which occur in this species. 



