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ANNULATED CHALCIDES. 

 Chalcide. Cepede ovip. p. 443. 



This, which is described by the Count de Ce- 

 pede, under the name of Chalcide, appears ex- 

 tremely nearl}' aUied to the former, but instead of 

 having imbricated fish-Hke scales, as in that ani- 

 mal, it is marked into a continued series of annuli 

 throughout its whole length, the scales being- 

 square instead of rounded. The specimen de- 

 scribed was of a dark colour, with a brassy cast : 

 the body measured two inches six lines in length, 

 being somewhat shorter than the tail : the feet 

 still shorter than in the former species, measuring 

 scarcely more than a line in length, and being all 

 tridactyle : the number of annuli on the body was 

 forty-eight. The native country of this kind 

 seems unknown. 



SERPENT LIZARD. 



Lacerta Serpens. L. capife corpore caudaque continuis cyl'mdricis, 

 pedibus minimis, remotissimis, pentadactylis unguicidatis. Lin. 

 Si/st. Nat. Gmel. p. 107s. Block. Beschr. der Berl. Naturf, 

 2. p. 28. f. 2. 



Lizard with head, body, and tail of a continued cylindric form, 



and very small, remote, pentadactyle feet. 

 Anguis quadrupes. J. pedibus quatuor. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. Spo. 



This, which is a native of Java, measures about 

 five inches and a half in length; and is entirelv 



