120 CLASS REPTILIA. 



titute of pores ; the tail is long, and finishes in a 

 point. 



We know but of one species, — 



The Stellio of the Levant, (hac. Stellio, L.) Seb. 

 I. cvi. f. 1 ; and better, Tournefort, Voy. au Lev. 

 I. 120, and GeofFr. Disc. del'Egypte, Rept. ii. 3. 

 — iTo^cor^/o^ of the modern Greeks J Hardem of 

 the Arabs. 



A foot long, of rather an olive colour, shaded with 

 black. Very common in the Levant, and more 

 especially so in Egypt. According to Belon, it is 

 its excrements which are gathered for pharmaceu- 

 tical purposes, under the names of Cordylea, Croco- 

 dileUf or Stercus Lacerti, and which were formerly 

 in request as a cosmetic. But it appears that the 

 ancients rather applied this name and this virtue 

 to those of the monitor. The Mahometans de- 

 stroy this animal, because they say that it mocks 

 them by bowing the head as they do when at 

 prayers. 



DORYPHORUS. CuV. 



Are destitute of pores, like the stellines, but have 

 not the trunk bristling with small groups of 

 thorns.* 



* Stellio BrevkaudatuSy Seb. II. Ixii. 6. Daudin IV, pi. 47. St. Azureus, 

 Daud. id. 46. 



