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 46' APPENDIX. centre o the lower  o the ne  the font part  its upper edge is elegtntly serrated, but the hinder  lower part is quite whble; the outer surface is covered vith keeled seoles, which are largest towards its centre; the inner surface is quite smooth. ne scales of the back are oval, smoothish; those o the lower part of the body and uppeg Part. of the legs acutely .mid�ed, and of the sides and j9ints of the iimbs minute. Thb tail is twice as long us the body, roundish, covered with acutely mid-ribbed scales, which towards the end form six rows, so as to render obscurely six-sided; the ed is blunt: the toes long, very unequal, varying in joints, as stated in the generic charser (which includes also the claw joint), compressed, scaly; the !aws hooked, horn-coloured. Length oF the tail. . ,, body. . ,, head. . . Breadth of the head over the eyes. 1 - foot end sole. . - outer edge of the frill. 10 This interesting lizard was found by Mr. Allan Cunning- hum, who accompanied the expedition as His Majesty's Bo- tanical C, oileor f Kew Oardens, on tho brach of a tree in Careening by, at the bottom of Port Nelson. (Soe vol L p. 430.) It was sent by him tO 8it Kvemrd Home, by whom it wus deposited in the Mmum of the Colleg of Sur- geons*, which !mecladed my examinedion of ite
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