NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Genus CXXII. Lacerta. — Lin, Sijl. Nat, 
The Laced Lizard. 
This mod elegant fpecies is in length, from the 
nofe to the end of the tail, about forty inches : in the 
mouth are a few weak teeth, though rather lliarp, at 
about a quarter of an inch diftance one from an- 
other : the tongue is long and forked : the general 
lliape is (lender ; and the ground colour of the flvin, 
on the upper parts, a brownifli or bluiHi black, whim- 
fically marked with golden yellow ; in feme parts this 
colour is beautifully mottled or freckled, like fome kinds 
of lace-work ; in others, ftriped in various directions, 
particularly on the legs, which feem as if ftriped acrofs 
with black and white : the under parts are yellow, crof- 
fed with lingle bars of black on the chin and throat, and 
double clouded ones on the belly : the toes are five in 
number on each foot, barred acrofs with black and 
yellow, as the legs, and each furniflied with a crooked 
black claw : the tail meafares more in length than the 
%vhoic of the body ; towards the bafe, clouded and 
marked as the reft ; but the further half banded with 
9 black 
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