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TROPIDOLEPIS .—Cuvier. Dumeril ct Bihron. 



Genus Tropidolepis. — Characters. Head short, sub-triangular, rounded in 

 front, and covered with small plates; no palatine teeth; tongue obtuse in front, 

 slightly notched, covered Avith minute papillce; lips furnished with a double series 

 of oblong plates; nostrils open in a single plate, surrounded by smaller scales; 

 tympanum depressed in the meatus, which has its anterior border more or less 

 dentated; neck below smooth, but with an oblique depression on each side; body 

 short, depressed, and covered with large, carinated and imbricated scales above, 

 and with smooth plates on the abdomen; tail very long, large, and depressed at its 

 base, rounded towards its tip; neither dorsal nor caudal crest; there are femoral, 

 but no anal pores. 



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TROPIDOLEPIS UNDULATUS.— 5osc. 



Plate IX. 



Characters. Head short, sub-triangular, rounded in front; body short, thick, 

 depressed, covered with carinated and imbricated scales, and marked with trans- 

 verse undulating black bands. 



/ Stnontmes. Stellio undulatus, LatreiUe, Hist. Nat. Rept., torn. ii. p. 40, MSS. from Bosc. 

 / Agama undulata, Daudin, Hist. Nat. des Rept., torn. iii. p. 3S4. 

 j Uromastix undulatus, Merrem, Versuch eines Syst. der Amphib., p. 57. 

 ! Stellio undulatus, Bosc, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. xxi. p. 527. 



Lacerta fasciata, et hyacinthina, Green, Journ. Acad. Nat. Scien. Philad., vol. i. p. 349. 

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