APPENDIX. 
appears to be not only deprefled, but pinnated on the fides. 
Another fpecies with a depreffed tail has been figured by the 
Count De Cepede, in his Hiftory of Oviparous Quadrupeds. 
The prefent fpecies is about four inches and a half in 
length. The head is large in proportion; and the whole 
upper furface of the animal is befet with fmall tubercles, 
which in fome parts, efpecially towards the back of the head, 
and about the tail, are lengthened into a fliarpened point. 
The lower furface is of a pale colour, or nearly white. 
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