116 CLASS REPTILIA, 



under the neck, formed by a transverse range of 

 broad scales, separated from those of the belly by a 

 space, in which there are only some small ones, as 

 under the throat, and because a part of the bones of 

 the cranium advances over the temples and orbits, so 

 that the entire upper part of the head is furnished 

 with an osseous buckler. 



They are very numerous, and our country pro- 

 duces several species confounded by Linnaeus under 

 the name of Lacerta Agilis. The handsomest is the 

 great green lizard, (JLac. Ocellata, Daud.)Lacep. L. xx. 

 Daudin III., xxxiii. of the South of France, Spain, 

 and Italy, more than a foot long, of a fine green, 

 with lines of black points forming rings or eyes, 

 and a kind of embroidery, the young of which, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Milne Edwards, is the Lizard Gentil 

 of Daudin III. xxxi. ; — the Lac* T^iridis of Daudin 

 III., xxxiv. whose B. Bileniata is only a variety, ac- 

 cording to the same observer. — The Lac, Lepuim, id. 

 ib. 2, whose Lac. Arenicola is but a variety ; — the Lac, 

 Agilis, id. xxxviii. 1, is found in all our neighbour- 

 hood. The South of France produces the Velox 

 Pallas, to which Daudin's Bosquien and some new 

 species must be referred.* 



* I add, with hesitation, the Lac, Sericea, Laur. II. 5 ; Argus, id. 5 ; 

 Terrestrisy id. III. 5. 



The Tilignerta of Daudin is a mixture of an American ameiva with 

 the green lizard of Sardinia, badly described by Cetti. The Cceruleocephala, 

 Lemniscata, and Quinque-Lineata, are ameiva. The Sex Lineata, Catesby, 

 is a seps. 



