210 CLASS REPTILIA. 



Laurenti has made a seps of this species under the name of 

 Seps varians, and M. Latreille considers it as a variety of 

 his green lizard. 



The green lixard of Jamaica has been figured by George 

 Edwards in his Natural History of Birds. It has the greatest 

 possible relations with the ameiva, in the form of its head 

 and body. It was seen alive in the metropolis by Edwards, 

 and was brought here from Jamaica. In his work called 

 Ga%ophyllacmm it has been figured by Petiver, who, how- 

 ever, calls it the li%ard of Gibraltar. 



The lacerta stirpium of Daudin inhabits the woods of 

 Germany and France, under the branches. It is very com- 

 mon in the Bois de Boulogne, and in that of Vincennes, near 

 Paris. The upper part of the head, the back, and tail, are 

 brown, and the sides and belly of a clear green ; all the 

 scales of the under part of the body and tail are marked 

 with a black point. 



It is very agile and by no means fearful, and glides off 

 among the dry leaves when it is attempted to be taken. 

 During the warm days of spring and summer, it quits its 

 retreat, and goes to bask in the sunshine and give chase to 

 the gnats, ants, and other small insects. These lizards 

 usually live in pairs. 



Almost all naturalists have regarded this lizard as a 

 variety of the lacerta agilis of Linnaeus, and M. Latreille 

 has made of it a variety of the green lizard of Lacepede. 

 It sufficiently appears that it is it which has been described 

 by Seba under the names of talectte and tamacoUn of New 

 Spain. 



M. Ruiz de Xelva found in the woods of Tuscany a 

 variety of this reptile which does not differ from that of the 

 environs of Paris, only by being somewhat of a larger size, 

 and by the colour of its belly and flanks which are of a 

 more lively green and destitute of black points. 



