Great numbers of fish, mostly of the same species with those of the Nile, were also furnished by the Lake Moeris; and from these a considerable revenue was derived by the Great Kings.
Among the more remarkable of the reptiles which the Empire comprised within its limits may be noticed--besides the great saurians already mentioned among the larger animals--the Nile and Euphrates turtles (_Trionyx Egypticus_ and _Trionyx Euphraticus_), iguanas (_Stellio vulgaris_ and _Stellio spinipes_), geckos, especially the Egyptian house gecko (_O.

lobatus_), snakes, such as the asp (_Coluber haje_) and the horned snake (_Coluber cerastes_), and the chameleon.

The Egyptian turtle is a large species, sometimes exceeding three feet in length.

It is said to feed on the young of the crocodile.

Both it and the Euphrates turtle are of the soft kind, i.e., of the kind which has not the shell complete, but unites the upper and under portions by a coriaceous membrane.