GERRHOSAURUS SEPIFORMIS.— Dum. et Bib. 



Reptilia. — Plate XLI. Fig. 2. 



G. dorso latcribusque lincis angustis alterne fuscis et flavo-brunneis variegato ; labio superiore brunneo, 



flavo-albo-fasciato; corporis squamis multiliratis, caudre carinatis. 

 Longitudo e naso ad basin caudse 2 unc. 3 lin. ; caudse 5 unc. 



Scincus sepiformis, Schneid, Hist. Amp. fasc. ii. p. 191, Merr. Tent. Syst. Amp. p. 70. 



Colour. — Back and sides variegated with from twenty to twenty-four 

 narrow longitudinal lines, half of which are of a tint intermediate between 

 umber and deep reddish brown, the other half between yellowish and deep 

 reddish brown, and they vary in depth in different specimens. The dark 

 lines are of unequal width, and the one which extends along the edge of the 

 back on each side is invariably the narrowest, being seldom more than a 

 simple line, from which circumstance the light coloured lines on each side 

 of it are broader than those elsewhere. In some specimens the sides, instead 

 of being marked with distinct lines, are dark brown sprinkled with small 

 white spots, both irregular in regard of size and distribution. Upper parts of 

 tail coloured like the back, only the lines are less distinct, and scarcely if at 

 all visible towards its point, sides of tail umber-brown more or less profusely 

 variegated with small white spots or longitudinal streaks. The lateral fold 

 of skin, the throat, the belly, and the under surface of extremities inter- 

 mediate between yellowish and greenish grey, — the scales of the former 

 edged with brownish red. Under surface of tail intermediate between 

 broccoli and hair-brown. Legs and toes orange-coloured brown, freely 

 shaded or deadened with umber-brown, the hinder ones darkest. Upper lip 

 transversely barred yellowish white and liver-brown, anterior portion of 

 lateral fold variegated with transverse bars alternately white and light reddish 

 brown. 



Form, &c. — Figure fusiform, the tail very long,* and tapered to a line 

 point. Head small, and the muzzle slightly pointed. Body subquadrangu- 

 lar, as is also the tail at its base, elsewhere the latter is cylindrical. Frontal 

 plate oblong, six-sided, the two anterior and posterior sides much shorter 



* The specimen represented in the Plate had the tail unusually short. 



