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still more elongated, altogether similar to that of an 

 anguis, and their feet still smaller, the two paws of 

 which are more remote from each other. Their 

 lungs begin to exhibit some inequality. 



There is one species with five toes, the hinder of 

 which are unequal. (S. Scincoides, Cuv.) 



One with five toes, pretty nearly equal and short. 

 (^Anguis Quadrupes, Lin. ; Lacerta Serpens, Gm.) 

 Block. Soc. des Nat. de Berlin, torn. II. pi. 2, of 

 the East Indies.* 



One with four toes, the hinder of which are un- 

 equal. (^The Tetradactylus Decresiensisy Ber.)f 



And one with three, otherwise very like the pre- 

 ceding. ( Tridactylus Decresiensis.) Both were from 

 the island of Decr^s, and are viviparous. 



One with three very short toes, and very short 

 feet, named in Italy Cecelia, or Cicigna, (Lacerta 

 Chalcides, L.) Grey, with four longitudinal brown 

 stripes, two on each side of the back. It is also 

 viviparous, and moves with rapidity without the 

 assistance of its feet ; lives in meadows, and feeds 

 on spiders, small snails, &c.t 



Our southern provinces have one very similar, but 



* Mr. Gray has made of this his genus Lygosojia. Mr. Fitzinger leaves 

 it in his Mabuia, or skinks without palatal teeth. 



■f It is to this species that Fitzinger reserves the generic name of Seps. 

 He calls it Seps Pcronii. 



J Mcrrem, on the contrary, had made his genus Sefs of this species 

 only. Fitzinger now calls it, after Oken, Zygnis, and joins with it the 

 Tri/dadi/lus o?'Perou, o( the Isle Decres, which much more approaches 

 the Tt/radact7/lus o[ the sanie island. 



