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BIPED LIZARD. 



Lacerta Bipes. L, corpore subcequali tereti imbricafo pallida , 

 squamarum singidarum jmnctofiisco, pedibus anteriorihus nullis, 

 posteribiis didactylis miitids. Lin, Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 1079' 



Long-bodied cylindric pale-yellow Lizard, speckled with brown, 

 without fore-feet, and with very small didactylous hind-feet. 



Angiiis bipes. A. squamis ahdominalihis 100, caudalibus 60, 

 Lin. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 21. t. 28./. 3. 



Serpens, &c. Seb. l.t.53.f. 9. Sc f. S6,f. 3. 



. A SMALL species, said to be found in South 

 America and in India. Length about six inches : 

 diameter scarcely that of a goose quill : colour pale 

 yellow, minutely speckled with brown : head 

 small; body cylindric, tail very short and taper 

 but not sharp-pointed : on each side the vent is a 

 small subulated foot, which being closely exa- 

 mined is found to be divided into two small and 

 unequal toes, without claws. This Lizard is de- 

 scribed by Linneeus in the Museum Adolphi Fri- 

 derici as a species of snake, under the title of An- 

 guis bipes. It is also figured in the same work, 

 but more elegantly in that of Seba. 



LUMBKTCirORM LIZARD. 



Lacerta Lumbricoides. L. bipes cylindrica, squamis quadratis 

 annulata, sulco laterali, pedibus posterioribus nullis. 



Two-footed cylindric Lizard, annulated with square scales, 

 with a lateral furrow and no hind feet. 



Le Cannelle. Cepede ovip. p. 6l3. pi. 41. 



Lacerta Lumbricoides. Lumbriciform Lizard. Nat. 3Iisc, 

 tol. 6. pi. 212. 



Native of Mexico. First described by the 

 Count de Cepede in his History of Oviparous 



