CLASS REPTILIA. ' 



back very small ; of tail sub-rhombic, above keeled ; tail long. 

 Egypt. 



Grammic Lizard. Lac. Grammica, Licht. Sav. 1. 1. f. ^. 



Abdominal plates fourteen or twenty-rowed ; head acute ; 

 scales of the back small, scarcely keeled ; of tail rhombic, 

 keeled ; collar sometimes obsolete ; tail half as long again as 

 the body. Egypt. 



Indian Lizard. Lac. Lesclienaultii, EdAv. t. 6. f. 9. 

 Abdominal plates six-rowed. Inhab. Coromandel. 



I I . Back with granular scales ; belly with small plates ; 



collar indistinct. Psammodromus. Fitz. 



Spanish Lizard. L. (Psammodromus) Hispaoiicus, Fitz 



MSS. See also Var. of Lac. grammica, Licht. 

 Blackish blue, lighter underneath, Spain. 



III. Back a7id tail with keeled scales^ belly with smooth 

 imbricate scales, collar none, femoral pores numerous. 

 Algyra Cuv. 



Common Algyra. Lac. (Algyra) Cuvieri, Lac. Algyra, Lin. 



Tail long, round, brown, beneath yellowish, with two yellow 

 streaks on each side ; length four inches. Spain. 



TV. Back and tail ivith lanceolate imbricate keeled scales, 

 abdomen with smooth imbricate scales, collar none, femoral 

 pores none. Tropidosaurus, Boie. 

 Mountain Lizard, Lac. (Tropidosaurus) Montanus, Boie. 

 Olive dark metallic green, blackish on the sides, and with a 

 narrow black dorsal, and two narrow white lines on each side. 

 Java. I have seen this genus both at Paris and Leyden, it 

 has much more the appearance of a scinct than a lizard, but 

 I could not see its tongue, Avhich I suppose caused Cuvier to 

 place it in this group. 



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