CORDYLTJS F ASCI ATUS.— Smith. 
Reptilia. Plate XXYII. Fig. 1. 
C snpeme ,ig,o-b,un»eus, to mac* fa,!, to tototo h o.dinibv.. ttotoh '» < «** 
fall j capitis latcribus posticc sqfa.ni. tribes tuberculosis armat.s, super aurem eaten, am po.rect.s. 
Longitudo e naso a(l basin caudte 4 unc. 4 lin.; caudtc 5 unc. 2 lm. 
Cordylus (psettdocordYLVs) fasci attts. Smith, Mag. of Natural History, vol. . P- 
Cordylus microlepidotus, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. General, tom. v. p. 361. 
Colour, &c.— The upper and lateral parts of the head, the back, the sides 
and the upper and lateral parts of the tail liver-brown, with ochreous or 
cream-yellow variegations, the liver-brown lightest on the head. The yellow 
variegations of the upper surface of the head consist of narrow, irregular 
broken stripes, principally on the sides towards the nose ; on the neck and 
back they are in the form of quadrangular spots, disposed in transverse 
rows, varying in each from eight to ten in number, on the sides the ye 
occurs as a waved longitudinal line, and on the tail it is in laige, irie ft u ar 
shaped, spots arranged in two rows, one row along each upper angle. 
Form, & c. — Head leather large, neck narrower than the hind head, body 
rather bulky and subcylindrical ; the tail depressed at the base, and cylindrical 
near the point. The upper surface of the head flat and faintly rugose, the 
shape of the plates represented in Plate XXX., Fig. 5. The sides ot the head 
before the angles of the mouth nearly perpendicular, and the temples convex and 
bulging • the posterior edge of each armed with three tubercular and somewhat 
nointed scales (Plate XXX. fig. 5a), which project outwards and backwards over 
the external ear ; the other scales on the temples of two descriptions, those 
towards the centre large, flat, and irregular, in form ; those around the edges 
small granular, and somewhat keeled. Scales of the upper lip six m number, 
not reckoning the rostral one ; the hindermost somewhat keeled, those of the 
