AMERICAN GALEOTE. 



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of the back, whereas in the female they scarce 

 reach farther than the shoulders. 



VAR. ? 



Lacerta Muricata. L. cauda tereti longa, corpore griseOj squa- 



mis carinatis mmronatis. 

 Muricated Lizard. L. with long rounded tail, body greyish, 



scales carinated and sharp-pointed. Whites Voy. p. 244-. 



pi. 31. f. 2. 



This variety, or the Brown Australasian Lizard, 

 can hardly be considered as spC'cifically distinct, 

 though I have myself described it as such in Mr. 

 White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales. 

 It measures more than a foot in length * ; its ge- 

 neral colour being a brownish grey, the whole 

 upper part marked with transverse dusky bars, 

 most conspicuous on the legs and tail, which 

 latter is very long : the scales on every part of the 

 animal are of a sharp form, and furnished with 

 a prominent line on the upper surface : towards 

 the back part of the head they almost run into a 

 kind of weak spines : the feet are furnished with 

 moderately strong and sharp claws. The chief 

 difference between this and the first described 

 kind, exclusive of colour, seems to be the defect 

 of the reversed scales on the back part of the 

 head. 



^ Specimens have sometimes been seen of mnch larger size. 



