CLASS REPTILIA. 



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

 Egypt. ^ . 



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



Abdominal plates fourteen or twenty-rowed ; heed 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. Leschenaultiiy Edw. t. 6. f. 9. 

 Abdominal plates six-rowed. Inhab. Coromandel. 



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



collar indistinct. Psammodrom'us. Fitz. 



Spanish Lizard. L. (Fsammodromus) Hispanicus, Fitz 



MSS. See also Var. of Zac. ^rammca, Licht. 

 Blackish blue, lighter underneath. Spain, 



III. Back and 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. 



IV. Back and tail with lanceolate imbricate keeled scales, 

 abdomen with smooth imbricate scales, collar none^feiuoral 

 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, which I suppose caused Cuvier to 

 place it in this group. 



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