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scaly. Auricular aperture simple. Limbs four, weak, far apart ; 

 five fingers and five toes, rather short, subcjlindrical, and clawed ; 

 their under surface transversely plated, smooth. Palms and soles 

 coarsely granular or subtubercular. Tail moderate. 



BY^.— Cyclodina, Grd. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. November, 1857. 



Obsery. — The species which constitute the present genus may truly 

 be termed diminutive Cyclodi, for, their affinities with the latter are 

 most intimate. They differ therefrom chiefly by the subquadrangular 

 shape of their body, their conical teeth, their auricular aperture, simple, 

 instead of being denticulated anteriorly. Finally, the number of lon- 

 gitudinal series of scales around the body are much less numerous than 

 in Cyclodus^ as understood by John Edward Gray, that is, not includ- 

 ing Cy clod as casuarinae. 



It appears to us that Lygosoma temminckii, Dum. & Bibe. (Erpet. gen. 

 V, 1839, 727), will prove congeneric with the species described below. 



Ctclodina aenea, Grd. 

 (Plate XXYI, figs. 9-16.) 



Char. spec. — Gorpore longiuscido, viginti sex serielms squamarum 

 longitudinalibus cooperto. Rostro hrevi. Scvtorum serie svhorhlicdi 

 Integra ; scutis lahialibus in orhitam non productis. Apertuva audi- 

 toria parva. Scutellis praearialibiis duahus medianis quam reliquis 

 majorihus. Memhris bene par vis. Colore auratiU viridescente ; dorso 

 nigro pundato; vitta obscure spadicea vel subnigra, superne albo 

 marginata, in latere sup>eriori sita. Lateribus albo nigroque punc- 

 tatis. Gala et mento nigro punctatis. Abdomine pallide, fulvo, uni- 

 colori. 



Spec. Char. — Body rather long, protected by twenty-six longitudinal 

 series of scales. Snout short. Suborbital chain of plates complete ; 

 no labials entering into the orbit. Auricular aperture small. Two 

 middle preanal scales larger than the rest. Limbs quite small. 

 Golden-green ; back speckled with black. A dark chestnut or 

 blackish streak, obscurely white-lined above, runs along the upper 

 portion of the flank. Sides speckled with white and black. Under 



