INTRODUCTION. V 



Generale, ou Histoire Katurelle Complete des Reptiles, now 

 in the course of publication at Paris. So that there is every 

 reason to believe they are named in perfect accordance with 

 those in the various continental collections. 



The specimens jDresented by 

 Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 

 Capt. White, 

 Patrick Russell, M.D. 

 J. Weeks, Esq. 



May be regarded as the types of the species described by 

 Dr. G. Shaw, in the General Zoology, or Zoological 

 Miscellany. 

 Andrew Smith, M.D. 



As the types of the African species described by this natu- 

 ralist in his Illustrations of the Zoology of S. Africa. 

 T, E» Bowditch, Esq. 

 As the species described by Dr. W. Elford Leach, in Mr. 

 Bowditch's Ashantee. 

 Charles Darwin, Esq., and 

 Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. 

 As the types of the species described by Mr. Bell, in the 

 Zoology of H. M.S. Beagle. 

 M. De Blainville, 



As the types of the species described by that Professor in 

 the Kouveaux Memoires du Museum, 

 M. Bibron, and 



The Directors of the French Museum, 

 As the types of the species described by MM. Dumeril 

 and Bibron, in their Erpetologie Generate. 

 The Hon. East India Company, 

 As the types of the species described by Dr. Cantor in his 

 Fauna of Chusan. 

 The Admiralty , 



B. Bynoe, Esq. 



Capt. C. Chambers, R.J^. 

 W. E. Cormack, Esq. 

 Allan Cunningham, Esq. F.L.S. 

 Earl of Derby, 



C. E. D. Fortnum, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 



