ORDER SAURIA. 121 



Uromastix. Cuv. Stellions Batards. Daud. 



Are only stelliones which have not the head swelled 

 out, and all the scales of whose body are small, 

 smooth, and uniform ; and those of the tail still 

 larger and more spinous than in the common stellio : 

 but there are none underneath. There is a series of 

 pores under the thigh.* 



The Uromastix of Egypt. Stellio Spinipes. Daud. 

 Geoffr. Kept. d'Egypt. pi. ii. f. 2. 



Two or three feet long ; body swelled out ; altoge- 

 ther of a fine meadow green. There are small spines 

 on the thighs. The tail is spinous only on the upper 

 part. It is found in the deserts which surround 

 Egypt. It was described of old by Belon, who has 

 asserted, but without proof, that it was the land 

 crocodile of the ancients.t 



* The name of Caudivcrbera, and that of o^o^cti^, are not ancient. 

 They were forged by Ambrosius for the great Egyptian species of which 

 Belon had said, " Cauda atrocissimc diverberare creditur" Linne has applied 

 the first to a Gecko, and other writers to Saurians, altogether different. 

 Add, Urom. Griseus, from New Holland ;— Ur. Reticulatus of Bengal ; — 

 Ur. Acantinuriis, Bell., Zool. Journ. I. 457. if, indeed, it be a distinct 

 species. 



N.B. The Stellio, with flat tail, of New Holland, is a phyllurus. 



-|- It is an uromastix which has been described by M. de Lac(?p^de, 

 Rept II., 497, under the name of Qaetzpaico ; but which is that of a 

 different Saurian, of which we shall speak lower down. Add, Ur. Ornalus, 

 Ruppel. 



