CLASS REPTILIA. 



Gen. V. Tachydeomus. Oppel. 



Tongue contractile ; head shielded ; back, belly, and tail, with 

 square keeled scales ; lateral line distinct, with small scales ; 

 femoral pores one on each side the vent ; body very long ; 

 feet very far apart and small. 



Chinese Tachydrome. Tachyodromus Sexlineatus, Daud. 



iij. t. 39. 



Silvery, with six brown bands. Tail three or four times as 

 long as the body. Java and China. Common in insect boxes 

 from China. The other species, Quadrilineatus, Daud. in 

 the Paris Museum, is in too bad a state to distinguish it 

 from the former. Is this Lac. Sept. of Linne .'* 



Section 11.^ 

 Tongue short, contractile, end slightly lobed. 



Gen. I. Iguana. 



Teeth three lobed or toothed, placed in the inner edge of the 

 jaw. Body and head compressed, palate mostly toothed. 



A^ Ribs simple ; throat dUatile ; head short ; back crested ; 

 palate toothed ; femoral pores numerous. Iguana, nob. 



1. TaU equally scaly ; toes unequal ; head shields jlatish ; 

 dewlap denticulated. Iguana. 



Common Guana. Iguana Tuherculata, Laur. Squamosa, 

 t. 5, I. Viridis, t 6, and I. Emargirata, t. 8, Spix. 



Sides of neck with con.'' ex scales ; front edge of dewlap 

 toothed ; sides of lower jaw with orbicular plates. Var. 

 Nose plates prominent, hornlike. Iguana Corriuta, Em. 

 t. 4. f. 4. Young, doisul spines lower. Iguana Ccerulea, 

 Daud. and /. Lophyroides, Spix, t. 9. South Ainerica, Mus. 

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