470 Annals of the South African Museum. 



4. CHAM^SAUEA. 

 Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 204 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 263. 



Three Species in South Africa. 



Both pairs of limbs present, pentadactyle ; 28 scales round the body C. (cnea. 

 Both pairs of limbs present, with one or two claws ; 24 or 20 scales 



round the body C. amjuina. 



Fore limbs absent ; 22 scales round the body C. macrolepia. 



1. CHAMiESAURA ^NEA. 



Cricochalus cenea, Fitzing. Syst. Eept. p. 21. 

 Chamcesaura cenea, Bouleng., t.c, p. 263. 

 Eastern parts of Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal. 

 Transvaal: Modderfontein (Haagner). 



2. Cham^isauea anguina. 



Lacuta anguina, Linn. S.N. i. p. 37L 



Chaincesawa anguina, Bouleng., t.c, p, 264. 



ChamcBsaura didactTjla, Bouleng, P.Z.S. 1890, p. 82, pi. xi. tig. 1. 



Cape Colony, Natal. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town (Jeffreys) ; Port Elizabeth (Drege) ; 

 Caledon Division (Lightfoot, Burges) ; Worcester (Hugo) ; Kei 

 Eoad (Schreiner) ; Kentani (Pegler) ; East Pondoland (Eogers) ; 

 Little Namaqualand (Hahn). 



Natal : Durban (Bowker, Sanderson). 



3. Cham^saura macrolepis. 



Mancus macrolepis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad., 1862, p 339. 

 Chamcesaura macrolepis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 264. 

 Natal, Zululand. 

 Natal: Durban (Bowker). 



Family VARAN IDiE. 



Tongue very long and slender, bifid, retractile into a sheath at the 

 base. Dentition pleurodont ; teeth large. Head and body covered 

 with small scales. Movable eyelids. No femoral pores. 



A single genus : — 



1. VAEANUS. 



Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. p. 58; Bouleng, Cat. Liz. ii. p. 304. 



Tico Species in South Africa. 



Kostril an oblique slit ; toes short V. alhigidaris. 



Nostril round; toes longer V. niloticus. 



