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VAR. ? 



In the Leverian Museum is a specimen, which 

 differs in being of a very pale brown colour, va- 

 riegated on the body and tail by several deep 

 brown transverse bands, among which, as Avell as 

 on the abdomen and limbs, are interspersed many 

 smaller variegations and spots of similar colour : 

 the tail much shorter than in the preceding, 

 though of similar thickness or relative proportion 

 to the body. 



SUPERCILIOUS LIZARD. 



Lacerta Superciliosa. L. cauda carinata, dorsa superciliisque 



squamis ciliatis. Lin. Si/st. Nat. p. SSO. 

 Lizard with carinated tail ; the back and eyebrows ciliated 



with upright lariceoiated scales. 

 Lacerta Ceilonica cristata & pectinata. Seb. 1. p. 147. t- 94./". 1. 



This Lizard, in its general appearance, is some- 

 what allied to the Guana, and more especially to 

 the horned Guana of Cepede ; having, like that 

 animal, the appearance of a pair of sharp-pointed, 

 horn-like processes above and beyond each eye, be- 

 tween which are also situated a certain number of 

 aculeated scales ; while from the back of the head 

 to the tip of the tail runs a series of short or 

 slightly elevated serratures : the scales about the 

 edges of the mouth and on the tip of the nose are. 



