CORDYLUS POLYZONUS. — Smith. 
Reptilia. Plate XXVIII. Fig. 1. 
C. superne flavo-brunneus, dorso maculis brunneis in ordinibus duobus longitudinahbus variegato ; maculis 
duabus nigro-brunneis pone aurem ; squamarum seriebus quadraginta inter nucham et basin caudse. 
Longitudo e naso ad basin caudeO 4 unc. ; candaa 5 unc. 
Coudylus POLYZONUS, Smith, Mag. of Natural History, Vol. ii. p. 31. 
ZoNunus polyzonus, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. General, tom. y. p. 357. 
Colour. — The tipper surface of the head, the back, the sides, and the ex- 
tremities intermediate between yellowish and cliesnut-brown, the back varie- 
gated with irregularly shaped umber-brown spots, the majority of them 
arranged in two longitudinal rows ; behind the ear on each side of the neck 
two very deep liver-brown blotches. Tail dull yellowish brown, mottled spa- 
ringly with small irregular umber-brown spots. Toes light greenish biown. 
Belly and under surface of tail a rusty ochreous yellow ; sides of head wood- 
brown, shaded with yellowish and light umber-brown. Eyes deep reddish 
brown. 
Var . — Above a uniform livid liver-brown without distinct variegations ; be- 
neath light yellowish brown or livid yellowish brown. 
Form, &c. — Head rather small, the temples convex and laterally very promi- 
nent- the neck rather narrower than the hind head, and convex superiorly ; the 
body depressed and subovate ; tail at the base, flat above, rounded below and 
towards the point cylindrical ; the hinder extremities rather long. The upper 
surface of the head irregular, the parietal shield rather concave ; the palpebral 
plates project considerably, and form arched eyebrows ; naso-rostral plates 
subhemispherical, and the nostril situated near their outer margin, so as to 
open laterally ; the form of the other plates, as represented in 1 late XXX. 
fig. 7. Labial scales of upper jaw seven, the last two rather tubercular, those 
of the lower six, the last two horizontally compressed, and projecting later- 
