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URAL LIZARD. 



Lacerta Uralensis. X. cauda tereti longiuscula, collo suhtu^ plicato, 

 pedibus omnibus pentadadylisj dorso ex cinereo livido, rugoso 

 Sp subvermcoso. Lin. Si/st, Nat. Gmel. p. 1073. Lepechin. 

 if. l.p. 317. t. 22. f. 1. 



Lizard with longish round tail, neck plaited beneath, all the 

 feet pentadact3de, and back livid, rugose, and subverrucose. 



Native of the desert of Ural: length about 

 four inches : head roundish : colour of the upper 

 parts livid brown, and covered with a wrinkled and 

 slightly tuberculated skin : under parts whitish : 

 moves with great swiftness. 



SEPS LIZARD. 



Lacerta Seps. L. cauda verficillata longiore, siitura laterali re- 



Jlextty squamis quadratis. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 363. 

 Blueish-brown Lizard, with longish verticillated tail, reficxed 

 lateral suture, and square scales. 



The Seps is rather a small species, and is easily 

 distinguished by the thin and lengthened form of 

 its body, long, slender tail, small, short limbs, 

 slender toes, and particularly by the square scales 

 with which it is entirely covered both above and 

 below, and which are so disposed as to mark the 

 animal into a great number of longitudinal and 

 transverse divisions : the abdomen is divided as it 

 were from the sides, by a very strongl3^-marked 

 suture, continued from the head to the base of the 



