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AMPHIBIA. REPTILES. 4 - Laceita- 
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Stellio, 
' Inhabits Chili; lives brder ground ; a foot 
fame ; the (kin is made into pouches by the inha 
iJffdy above covered with minute fcales varying nan^'^ 
green, blue and black, beneath fhining with g' 
low ; Jett 5-toed J claws ftrong. 
Tail verticillate, moderate ; head and body 
Inhabits the Eafi and fome parts of Africa ; its dung 
nchr the pyramids in Egjpt is ufed as a cofmetic. 
Maurita- Tail fubverticillate 
body above muricate 
mca^ 
, muricate, Ihort, fmooth 
ricate : toes unarmed, lamellat| , 
Moortfi 
2* Tail verticillate. 
3* Body prickly. 
IWcahhti Mauritania, 2) India. 
Body InxiA-, fides of xht head, neck, back ^ 
eronate protuberances, beneath fmooth; fcales min 
fhorter than the body, from the bale to the mm , 
with 6 rows of fpines, thence to the tip fmooth > / 
fOW 
lobate. 
fpines. 
tip 
Aiurea, Tail verticillate, Ihort, with mucronate fcales. 
Azure ^ 
2, A deep chefnut band on the Ihoulders. 
Inhabits Africa, 2) Brafil: of a middle rank betwee** 
the next fubdivifion. 
Angulata Tail hexagonal, long; fcales carinate, mucronatC' , 
Angular^ 
Inhabits America ; of a fmall fize, 
Body above brown, beneath with fcales not 
under the throat are 2 large, rounded ones; ^eud 
various elevated wrinkles, behind, where the , ^5 P 
neck begin, as if truncate ; tail very angular, ha 
again as the body. 
Orbicularis Tail round, middle fized ; crown with 3 
roundifh. Orbicular 
2. Tail round, Ihort ; trunk fubglobular, muricate a 
Inhabits warm parts of America, 2) New Spain 
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