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Nubia, Abyssinia, and Arabia, from whence it is 

 brought to Alexandi'ia, and thence into all Europe. 

 It exhibits an extraordinary promptitude in sinking 

 into the sand when pursued.* 



Among those which have the muzzle blunt, we 

 may remark a species extended throughout all India, 

 (Sc, Itufescens'). Greenish ; a yellowish line along 

 each flank, and each of the scales raised with three 

 small crests. 



One of the south very much spread in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Cape (Sc. Trivittatus). Brown ; 

 three paler lines along the back and tail j black spots 

 between the lines. f 



And especially a large species of the Levant, 

 named (Sc, Cyprius, Cuv.) Lac. Cyprius Scin- 

 coides, Aldrov. Quad. Dig. 666 j Geoff. Desc. de 

 I'Egypt. Rept. PI. III. f 3, under the name of 

 Anolis Oigantesque. Greenish, with smooth scales, 

 and tail longer than the body y a pale line along 

 each flank. 



Other skinks, the Tiliq.ua, Gray, have no teeth 

 in the palate. 



• The Greeks and Latins named the Land Crocodile, which is a monitor, 

 Scincus, and to which they attributed many virtues. But since the middle 

 ages, the species above-mentioned has been generally sold under this name, 

 and for the same uses. The Orientals, in particular, regard it as a power- 

 ful aphrodisiac. 



-|- Add : Scincus Ert/throcephalus,Gi[\i&ms, Sc. Nat. Phil. L xviii. ; Sc. Bico- 

 lor, Harlan, ib. IV. xviii. 1 ; Sc. Multi Seriatus, Nob. Geoff Eg. Reptil. IV. 

 f. 4, under the name of Anolis Pave. We are also inclined to refer to this 

 subdivision, though we have not had the means of procuring it, the large 

 skink called Galley Wasp, in Jamaica, Sloane II. pi. 273, f. 9. (Laceiia 

 Occidua, Sli.) 



