CHAMELEON VULGARIS. 225 
RHIPTOGLOSSA. 
CHAM^LEONTID^E. 
CHAMELEON. 
Chamceleo, Laurenti, Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 45. 
Body compressed ; head angular, with strong ridges ; eye large, globular, covered by 
a thick granular lid, perforated by a hole in its centre; ear hidden; digits in two 
opposable groups of two and three ; palmar and plantar scales smooth ; claws simple ; 
tail prehensile, as long as, or longer than, the body. 
ChaMjELEON vulgaris, Daud. (Plate XXIX.) 
Lacerta chamceleon, Hasselq. & Linn. Iter Palaest. 1757, p. 297 ; part., Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. ed. 
1766, p. 364; Forskal, Descr. An. 1775, p. ix; Poiret, Voy. en Barbarie, i. 1789, p. 288. 
Chamceleo zeylanicus, Laur. Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 46. 
Chamceleo vulgaris, Daud. Hist. Rept. iv. 1802, pp. 181, 202; Rozet, Voy. dans la reg. d' Alger, i. 
1833, p. 233; part., Gray, Syn. Rept. Griffith's An. King. ix. 1831, p. 53; Cat. Liz. B. M. 
1845, p. 265; Dum. & Bib. iii. 1836, p. 204; Gervais, Ann. Sc. Nat. (2) vi. 1836, p. 309 ; 
op. cit. (3) x. 1848, p. 204; Guichenot, Explor. Alg., Sc. Phys. Zool. v. 1850, p. 3; Tristram, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 476 ; West. Palest., Rept. & Batr. 1884, p. 154; Steindachner, 
Unger & Kotschy's Insel Cypern, 1865, p. 572 ; De Betta, Fauna d'ltalia, pt. iv. Rett, ed 
Anfibi, 1874, p. 18 ; part., Schreib. Herp. Europ. 1875, p. 496 ; Gasco, Viagg. in Egitto, 
pt. ii. 1876, p. 105 ; Lortet, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Lyon, iii. 1883, p. 187; Reichenow, S.B. 
Ges. naturf. Freunde Berl. 1883, p. 149 ; Boettger, Abh. Senck. nat. Ges. xiii. 1884, p. 129 ; 
Kobelt's Reiseerin. Alg. u. Tunis, 1885, p. 472; S.B. Ak. Wissensch. Berl. 1888, p. 169 ; Verb.. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xlvi. 1896, p. 278; Hart, Fauna & Flora Sinai &c. 1891, p. 210. 
Chamceleo pallida, Perry, Arcana, 1811 (sig. o), plate. 
Chamceleo africanus, Lielit. Verz. Doubl. Mus. Berl. 1823, p. 103 ; Guerin, Icon. Rept. Reg. An. 
1829-44, pi. xv. fig. 1 ; Schlegel, Wagner's Reis. iii. 1841, p. 111. 
Chamceleon carinatus, Merr. Syst. Amph. 1820, p. 162; Berthold, Abh. k. Ges. Wissensch. 
Gottingen, i. 1838 (1843), p. 9. 
Chamceleon subcroceus, Merr. op. cit. p. 162. 
Le Cameleon trapu, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. Descr. de TEgypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1827, p. 134, pi. iv. fig. 3. 
Chamceleo siculus, Grohmann, Nouv. descr. Carnal, sic. 1832, p. 7. 
Chamceleon hispanicus, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 1843, p. 42. 
Chamceleon rimulosus, Fitz. op. cit. p. 42. 
Chamceleo vulgaris, var. A, A. Dum. Cat. Rept. Paris Mus. 1851, p. 31 ; Arch. Mus. vi. 1852, 
pi. xxii. fig. 1. 
Chamceleo cinereus, Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (vii. ser.) iv. no. 7, 1862, p. 21 ; Boettger 
Abh. Senck. nat. Ges. ix. 1873-75, p. 132 ; Ber. Senck. nat. Ges. 1878-79, p. 80. 
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