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RED-TAIL LIZARD. 



Lacerta Crueuta. L. cauda Terticillata supra c'merea suhtus coc- 

 cinea apice albicante, colli suhtus plica transversa. Lin. Syst. 

 Nat. Gmel p. 107 "l- Pall it. 1. p. 456. 



Brown Lizard, with seven cervical and four dorsal white stripes, 

 a crease under the throat, and verticiiiated tail red beneath. 



An extremely small species, allied to the L, 

 mlox\ but with a sharper snout : body brown above, 

 with seven white stripes on the neck, four of which 

 are continued as far as the tail : limbs spotted 

 with round white spots ; body Avhite beneath, tail 

 red beneath, and white at the tip : a row of tuber- 

 cles on the thighs : native of the south of Siberia, 

 inhabiting the country about the salt lakes. 



LOBE-CHEEKED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Lobata. L. collo utrinque loho semiorbiculato denticulato. 



Brownish Lizard, with a semiorbicular denticulated lobe on 

 each side the neck. 



Lacerta aurita. L. cauda tereti mediocri utrinque adlatus callosis 

 punctis aspera, plica gulce transversa subgemella, oris angidis 

 utrinque in cristam semiorbiculatam mollcm scahram dentatam di- 

 latatis. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1073. Pall. it. 3. p. 702. 

 t.V.f.l. 



This is a middle-sized species, of a somewhat 

 thick or ventricose habit ; with the body rather 

 depressed, and the head rounded or blunt in front : 

 from the corners of the mouth on each ^ide is 



