222 THE REPTILES OP EGYPT. 
exception, the absence of a finger being probably due, in this instance, not to non- 
development, but to an injury. In no Egyptian specimen have I ever found the hind 
limb with less than five digits on each foot. 
In three specimens from the Pyramids of Gizeh there is complete division of the 
supranasal, while in three others there is partial division. A specimen from Senegal 
in the British Museum has it also divided. Only in one specimen is there any variation 
in the labial that enters the orbit. It occurs in a specimen from near the Pyramids of 
Gizeh, in which the third upper labial is under the eye, but only on the left side of the 
head. 
Dr. Walter Innes informs me that this lizard is known to the natives of Lower 
Egypt as ^\j Cj =daffana, or the burro wer. 
I have already mentioned incidentally that little wooden and bronze boxes containing 
mummified lizards are met with in Egypt, and that there is generally on the lid a 
representation of the lizard preserved within. Lefebvre, on his visit to Egypt, obtained 
a small wooden box containing a lizard from an excavation in the neighbourhood of 
Thebes. It was examined by one of the authors of the ' Erpetologie Generale,' who 
pronounced the mummy, which was simply in a dried condition rolled in linen, to be 
an example of this species (Chalcides sepoides). At that time, the Egyptian collection 
in the Louvre contained another little box that also held a mummy of this species ; 
and in the British Museum there are also a few small boxes containing lizards, 
not yet identified, but some of which may prove to be the same species. Why it was 
selected for preservation is difficult to conjecture. 
C. boulengeri, from Tunisia, is a nearly allied species, with 28 rows of scales round 
the body, with 8 upper labials, and the fifth labial under the eye, and the nostril 
not in advance of the suture between the rostral and the first labial. 
