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styliform vostigo of hind limbs, S. Amer. ; Anguia L., teeth fang-like, no 

 limbs, palate toothless, Eur., VV. Asia, Algeria ; A. jragilia L., slow-worm, 

 blind-worm, eyes well developed with moveable lids, ear-opening minute, 

 tail as long as body, to more than one ft. 



Fam. 10. Anniellidae. Vermiform, limbs absent, eyes and ears con- 

 coaled ; tongue bifid ; teeth large, few, fang like, skull ophidian-like, no 

 columella cranii, no squamosal, post-orbital arch ligamentous. Anniella 

 Cope, California. 



Fam. 11. Helodermatidae. Pleurodont, teeth fang-like and grooved 

 with labial poison-glands ; limbs well developed ; tongue bifid ; post- 

 fronto-squamosal arch absent ; ostooderms present. Hdoderma Wieg., 

 the poisonous lizard (Gila monster), Mexico ; Lanthanotus Steind., Borneo 

 is ailed hero. 



Fam. 12. Varanidae. Pleurodont, old-world lizards with a long, 

 bifid and protractile smooth tongue ; osteoderms absent ; postorbital 

 arch incomplete ; tail long ; teeth large, dilated at the base. Varanus 

 (Hydrosaurus) Merr., Monitor, with 30 species, Afr., S. Asia, Australia ; 

 in some species they attain to 7 feet. 



Fam. 13. Xantusiidae. Pleurodont with short tongue, and supra- 

 temporal fossa roofed by the cranial bones ; no osteoderms ; no moveable 

 eyelids ; C. Amer., and Cuba. Lcpidophyma A. Dum., C. Amer. ; 

 Xantusia Baird, California ; Oricosaura G. and P., Cuba. 



Fam. 14. Teiidae. Dentition intermediate between pleurodont and 

 acrodont, teeth not hollow at the base ; tongue long and bifid, with scale- 

 like papillae ; palatines in contact anteriorly ; no osteoderms ; limbs 

 various, they may be normal, or shortened (Froctoporus), or more reduced 

 with incomplete number of digits (Scolecoaaurus), or digits absent and as 

 bud-like rudiments {Gophias, Ophiognomon, in one species of the latter the 

 pelvic limbs are absent) ; confined to the New World, 40 genera, more 

 than 100 species. 



Alopoglossus Blgr., Ecuador, Peru ; Amciva Cuv., trop. Amer. ; Anadia 

 Gr., Costa Rica to Ecuador ; Argalia Gr., Venezuela and Colombia ; 

 Arthrosaura Blgr., Ecuador ; Callopistea Gravh., Peru, Chili ; Centropyx 

 Spix, S. Amer. ; Ccrcosaura Wagl., Brazil; Cnemidophorua Wagl., Amer. ; 

 Gophias Fitz., S. Amer. ; Grocodilnrua Spix, Guianas, Brazil ; Dicrodon D. 

 and B., Peru ; Dracaena Daud., Guianas and Amazon; Ecpleopus D. and 

 B., S. Amer. ; Euspondylua Tsch., Venezuela to Peru ; Gymnophthalmua 

 Merr., trop. Amer. ; Hclerodaclylus Spix, Brazil ; Iphisa Gr., Brazil, 

 Guianas ; Lepo.ioma Spix, S. Amer. ; LoxophoUs Cope, Colombia ; 

 Micrablepharua Boottg., Brazil, Paraguay ; Monoplocua Gthr., trop. Amer. ; 

 Ncusticurua D. and B., S. Amer. ; Ophiognomon Cope, Upper Amazons ; 

 Oreoaaurua Ptrs., Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil ; Pantodactylua D. and B., 

 S.E. S. Amer. ; Perodactyhia R. and L. Brazil ; Pholidoholua Ptrs., Ecua- 

 dor ; Placoaoma Tsch., Brazil; Prionodactylua O'Sh., S. Amer. ; Procto- 

 porua Tsch., Andes of Ecuador and Peru ; Scolecoaaurua Blgr., S. Amer. ; 

 Teiua Merr., S.E. S.-Amer. ; Tupinambia Daud., teju, to 3 ft., S. Amer. ; 

 Tretioscincua Cope, Colombia, C. Amer. 



Fam. 15. Amphisbaenidae. Vermiform, teeth acrodont or pleurodont, 

 scales of body reduced, skin soft divided into squarish segments forming 

 regular annuli ; eyes and ears concculod ; limbs absent, excci t in Ghirotes, 

 which has 4-cIawed forelimbs , girdles much reduced ; sternum absent 

 except in Ghirotea in which it is not connected with the ribs ; tail short ; 

 skull without intororbital septum, epipterygoid, postorbital and fronto- 



