CLASS REPTILIA. 



Thin Scaled Galley Wasp. Tillqua Tenuis, Gray. 

 Pale brown, back with irregular black spots, forming a band 

 on each side the back, scales thin polished. 



Fine Scaled Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Microlepis, Gray. 



Pale, with numerous irregular transverse brown bands ; head 

 very depressed, forehead flat, eyes large, tail slender, toes 

 very unequal. Scales very thin, closely adpressed keeled. 



Banded Galley Wasp. Tiliqua Fasciatus. 



Silvery blue, head with three, neck with one, back and tail 

 with six broad black bands, toes, hinder rather unequal, five 

 last in Brit. Mus. 



Spix has placed his genus Lepidosoma near the Scinks. 

 In one of my notes made on the animal at Paris I have re- 

 marked that it is nearly allied to Polychrus, but has no pores 

 or keeled scales. 



d. Toes 4, 5, rest like Tiliqua, hut no eyelids. Gymno- 



tholamus, Merrem. 



Four-lined Galley Wasp. Gym. quadrilineatus, Merren. 

 Lacerta lineata, Lin. Seba, y. t. 41. f. 6. Lac. quadrilinea- 

 tus, Lin. Pr. Max. Beytr. xiii. f. 2. Sc. Cyanurus, Sching. 



Blackish, with four yellowish dorsal bands. 



e. Toes 5, 5, muzzle rounded, body very long slender, 

 feet small, far apart, ears distinct. Lygosoma, Gray. 



Short-footed Lygosoma. Scincus Brachypus, Schn. Geoff. 

 Kept. Egypt, t. f. 9, 10. Sposnops Capistrata, Wagler. 



Hinder toes unequal, long ; pale brown, with narrow brown 

 longitudinal band, and a black streak through each eye. 



Dotted Lygosoma. Lygosoma Punctata, Gray. 

 Hind toes unequal, long ; pale brown, with many series of 

 minute dark spots ; head brown ; tail long, dotted. 



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