160 CLASS REPTILIA. 



with eight or nine brown rays equally distributed. 

 (^Zygnis Striata, Fitz.) 



We might separate from the others a species 

 whose scales, all carinated and pointed, are pretty 

 nearly disposed in verticillse. (^Lac. Anguina, Lin. ; 

 Lac. Monodactyla, Lacep. Ann. Mus. II. lix. % and 

 Vosmaer; Monogr. 1774, f. 1, under the name of 

 Serpent Lizard.') Its feet are small stilets, not 

 divided. It inhabits the environs of the Cape of 

 Good Hope.* 



The BiPEDEs. (BiPEs, Lacep.) 



Are a small genus which do not differ from the 

 seps, but because they entirely want the fore-feet, 

 having only the omoplates and clavicles concealed 

 under the skin, and the hind feet alone being 

 visible. There is but a step from them to the 

 angues. 



Some have a range of pores in front of the anus. 

 They form the genus Pygopus of Merrem. 



I have dissected one brought from New Holland 

 by the late Peron, Bipede Lepidopode, Lacep. An. du 

 Mus. torn. IV. pi. Iv., which has the scales of the 

 back carinated, and the tail twice as long as the 

 body. Its feet at the exterior exhibit only two 

 small oblong and scaly plates ; but by dissection may 

 be found a femur, a tibia, a peroneum, and four 

 bones of the metatarsus, forming toes, but without 



* It is the genus MoNODAC'rYLus,Merr. or Cham^saura, Fitz. 



