122 THE EEPTILES OE EGYPT. 
Agama stellio, Linn. (Fig. 7.) 
Crocodile de terre, Tournefort, "Voy. du Levant, i. 1717, pi. p. 313. 
Le Stellion du Levant, Cuv. Reg. An. ii. 1817, p. 32. 
Lacerta stellio,Jjinn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reginae, ii. 1764, p. 37; Hasselq. & Linn. Iter Patest. 1757, 
p. 301 ; Syst. Nat. i. 1766, p. 361. 
Cordylus stellio, Lam. Syuop. Kept. 1768, p. 52. 
Stellio vulgaris, Daud. Rept. iv. 1803, p. 16; Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de l'Bgypte, Hist. Nat. i. 
? 1827, p. 127, pi. ii. fig. 3 ; Diet. Class. Hist. Nat. xv. 1829, p. 627; Heyden, ftiippell's Atlas 
nordl. Afr. 1827, Rept. p. 6, pi. ii. ; Guerin, Iconog. Reg. An. 1828, pi. vi. fig. 2 ; Bibr. et Bory 
St. Vincent, Exped. Sc. Moree, Rept. 1833, p. 68, pi. xi. fig. 1 & pi. xiii. fig. 1 ; Duvernoy, 
Reg. An., Rept. (1835-46) pi. xiii. fig. 1; Dum. & Bibr. iv. 1837, p. 528; Riippell, Mus. 
Senck. iii. 1845, p. 302; A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Paris Mus. 1851, p. 105; Steindach. Unger 
& Kotsehy's Insel Cypern, 1865, p. 572; Shreiber, Herp. Europ. 1875, p. 469; Gasco, 
Viagg. Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 107; Bedriaga, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1879, no. 3, p. 38; 
Boettger, Ber. Senck. nat. Ges. 1879, p. 78, et 1880, p. 196 ; Lortet, Arch. Mus. Lyon, 1883, 
iii. p. 187. 
Agama cordylea, Merr. Tent. Syst. Amph. 1820, p. 55. 
Stellio antiquorum, Eichwald, Zool. Spec. iii. 1831, p. 187. 
Stellio cyprius, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 1843, p. 85. 
Stellio cordylina, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 255 ; Giinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 741 ; 
Tristram, West. Palest., Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 154. 
Agama stellio, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. i. 1885, p. 368 ; op. cit. iii. 1887, p. 496 ; Boettger, Kat. Rept. 
Mus. Senck. 1893, p. 52 ; Peracca, Boll. Mus. Torino, 1894, no. 167, ix. p. 7 ; Anderson, 
Herp. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, pp. 62, 101. 
2 J j 2 $ , and 3 juv. Gabari, Alexandria. 
2juv. Ramleh, Alexandria. 
1 (J and 1 juv. Tor, Sinaitic Peninsula. 
Body rather short and much depressed ; head large, about half the length of the 
body from the nape of the neck to the base of the tail, swollen in the males from 
behind the eyes, triangular in form, with the canthus rostralis sharply denned ; nasal 
shield large, flat, or slightly swollen, placed below the canthus rostralis, nostril directed 
outwards and backwards ; eye smaller than the ear-opening, which is circular and 
quite exposed. Limbs well-developed and strong; wrist reaches to between the eye 
and the nostril, even to the snout, and the fourth toe to between the ear and eye or to the 
eye ; fourth digit the longest. Tail considerably longer than the body and head, rather 
broad and depressed at the base, and rounded beyond. Skin on the neck in loose folds, 
the gular fold passing upwards in front of the shoulder-pit and along the side of the 
back with other folds below it. Head-scales moderately large, generally an elongate 
scale or two, larger than the others, on the mesial line of the snout, smooth or feebly 
keeled, but strongly keeled on the post-temporal region ; occipital not enlarged ; the 
