STENODACTYLUS GUTTATUS. 175 



Stenodactylus guttatus. 



Stenodactylus guttatus, Dum. et Bib. vol. iii. p. 434 ; Sohinz, Europ. 

 Faun. vol. ii. p. 11. 



Description. — The head is much flattened; the eyes are 

 very large, the pupil elliptic, and the eyelid withdrawn to 

 the orbit below ; the neck is scarcely narrower than the 

 head ; the sides of the body are swollen ; the legs slender, 

 the thighs not being thicker than the lower parts ; the toes 

 are rounded, ending in long pointed nails ; the fifth toe is 

 very short, inserted on the tarsus, much behind the others ; 

 the tail is about half the length of the body, covered above 

 and below with small, flat, polygonal scales ; in the male, 

 its swollen base has twelve or fifteen spiny tubercles on 

 each side ; the upper parts are grey, sprinkled with white 

 spots, the lower parts all white ; on the tail are several 

 black transverse stripes ; the nostrils and edges of the 

 eyelids are white. 



Entire length, scarcely 5 inches. 



This species was found in Greece by the members of the 

 French Scientific Expedition to the Morea, MM. Bory and 

 Bibron, near Argos and Modon, in the Morea. In the 

 ' Erpetologie Generale ' of MM. Dumeril and Bibron, 

 Egypt is the only habitat recorded. 



Family IGUANIDtE. 

 In this family the general form, the lengthened tail, the 

 free and unequal toes resemble the true lizards so well 

 known in Europe, and hereafter to be described. The eyes, 

 ears, and most of the other characters, are also similar ; but 

 the tongue is thick, fleshy, not extensile, and instead of 

 being terminated by two filaments, is merely notched at 

 the extremity. The greater number of the genera have a 



