THE 
APODAL LIZARD, 
Generic Character. 
Body four-footed, tailed, naked. 
Specific Character. 
Yellowifh-brown fnake-lhaped LIZARD, with¬ 
out fore-feet, and with very Ihort monodac- 
tylous hind-feet. 
The Lacerta Apus, one of thofe lingular fpecies 
which form, as it were, a connecting link between 
Lizards and Snakes, feems to have been firfi: def- 
cribed by Dr. Pallas in the work entitled “ Nov. 
Comm. Petrop. &V.” where a figure of it is alfo given 
in its natural fize. The fpccimen here exhibited was 
brought from Greece by the late Dr. Sibthorp, Pro- 
felfor of Botany in the Univerlity of Oxford. It 
may be confidered as one of the largeft of its tribe, 
meafuring near three feet in length. It is a harm- 
lefs animal, and is principally found in lhady and 
damp fituations in the moll retired places, where, 
like other Lizards, it feeds chiefly on infedrs. 
It may not be improper to obferve that the other 
fnake-lhaped Lizards hitherto difcovered by natu- 
ralifts. 
