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BICARINATED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Bicarinata. L. cauda compressa, supra Ucarinata me- 

 diocri) dor so quadrifariam carinato-striato, Lin. Si/st, Nat. 

 p. 361, 



Lizard with four rows of strong carinated scales on the back, 



and tail of moderate length. 

 La Dragonne. Cepede ovip. 1. p. 24^3. pL 16. 



This species, which in the work of the Count 

 de Cepede ^' seems in some degree confounded 

 with the Drac3ena, is in general of much smaller 

 sizC; the specimen figured in the work above men- 

 tioned measuring but two feet five inches from 

 the tip of the snout to the end of the tail. In its 

 habit it bears some resemblance to a Crocodile 

 in miniature, having hard, tuberculated, and ca- 

 rinated scales on the upper parts of the body, and 

 two rows of scales more prominent than the rest, 

 running from the upper part of the back to the 

 tail, at which part they become confluent, and 

 are continued in the form of a serrated crest, to 

 the tip : the head is small ; the mouth wide ; the 

 snout sharpish ; the teeth pretty numerous ; those 

 in front of the mouth small, those situated back- 

 wwds larger, and more obtuse; the tongue forked. 

 The colour of this animal, according to Cepede, 

 is a reddish brown more or less tinged with 



* Lacertam is (Cepede) draccenam Linnaei nobis promittit et 

 pingit in tab. 1(5. quae plane est bicarinata Linnaei, cujus pictura 

 accurata hucusque caruimus : quapropter imprudentiae Galli gra- 

 tias agendas potius quam levitatem ejus taxandam esse censeo. 

 — Sc/meid. Amph. Fhys, Sp, Alt. p. 40. 



