CORDYLUS GRISEUS. — Cuv. 
Reptilia. Plate XXYIII. Figs. 2 and 3. 
E. superne flavo-brunneus, subtus viride flavus ; dorso lateribusque maculis striisve brunneis varic n at's , 
extremitatibusmaculis brunneis variis ; squamarum ordinibus viginti-septem inter nucham et basin 
caudee. 
Longitudo e naso ad basin caudee 2 unc. 8 lin.; caudal 3 unc. 4 lin. 
Cordylus grisetjs, niger, et dorsalis, Cuv., Regne Animal, 2d ed. tom. ii. p- o3. 
Zonurus griseus, Dum. et Bib., Erpet. General, tom. v. fol. 351. 
Colour.— The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail yellowish 
brown deadened with brownish orange, the back and sides variegated with a 
number of irregular umber-brown blotches or short bars ; tail slightly clouded 
or shaded with umber-brown stripes, and the extremities, particularly the 
hinder ones, variegated sparingly with umber-brown spots; under parts 
greenish yellow. Eyes reddish brown. 
Var. Fig. 3.— The upper and lateral parts of the head, body, and tail, also 
the extremities bright purplish brown ; the under parts pale buff orange. 
Form, &c. — Head rather small and subtriangular, the temples convex but 
less prominent than in the other species ; neck as broad as the hind head ; 
body subovate and superiorly slightly convex ; tail depressed at the base 
cylindrical towards the point, the latter acute; legs moderately long and 
slender. The upper surface of the head flat and slightly granular, the 
palpebral on the same plane with the other plates, the form of the plates repre- 
sented in Plate XXX, fig. 8 ; the sides of the head anterior to the eyes nearly 
perpendicular, the upper lip rather protuberant, the sides behind the eye (the 
temples) slightly convex, and covered with irregular-shaped, rugose, and 
* Besides this variety several others might he described, but as each is so easily to be recognized as ap- 
proaching one of the two kinds noticed, it is not considered necessary to instance the many individual 
differences which occur in this species. 
