Revised List of South African lieptiles and Batrachians. 471 



1. Varanus albigularis. 



Tupinamhis albigularis, Daud. Hist. Eept. iii. p. 72. 



Varanus albigularis, Bouleng., t.c, p. 307. 



Interior of Cape Colony, Natal, Znluland, Transvaal, Ehodesia, 



Portuguese East Africa, German South- West x\frica, Angola, 



British Central Africa. 

 Cape Colony : Fraserhurg Eoad (Sachs) ; Graaff-Eeinet (A. 



Eckley) ; Beaufort West ; Little Namaqualand (Peringuey) 



Tsomo (Watermeyer). 

 Orange Eiver Colony : Smithfield (Kannemeyer). 

 Transvaal : Barberton (Eendall). 



Southern Ehodesia: Salisbury (ft. Darling, H. M. Oakley). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Pungwe Eiver (T. D. Butler). 



'2. Varanus niloticus. 



Lacerta nilotica, Linn. S.N. i. p. 369. 

 Varanus niloticus, Bouleng., i.e., p. 317. 



From Egypt, through the whole of Tropical Africa, to Cape 

 ■Colony and Natal. 



Cape Colony : Griqualand West (Murison) ; Orange Eiver ; 

 Quora Eiver; Transkei (Oakley) ; Uitenhage (Drege) ; Bedford 

 (Stephenson) ; Hanover (Schreiner). 



Family AMPHISB^NID^. 



Tongue moderately long, cdvered with imbricate scale-like 

 papilhe, ending in two long, narrow, smooth points. Teeth large 

 and few. Body vermiform ; skin divided into soft squarish segments 

 forming regular annuli. Eyes concealed under the skin. 



Three Genera in South Africa. 

 Segments of the pectoral region not differentiated ; eye under an 



ocular shield ; prseanal pores Amphishiena. 



Segments of the pectoral region not differentiated ; no ocular shield, 

 the eye under the posterior part of a large shield in which the nostril 



is pierced ; no prseanal pores Chirindia. 



Segments of the pectoral region enlarged, forming shields ; head 

 depressed, with projecting sharp-edged snout ; nostril in a small 

 nasal on the lower surface of the snout Monopeltis . 



1. AMPHISB^NA. 

 Linn. S.N. i. p. 392 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 435. 



Tivo Species in South Africa. 

 One pair of praef rental shields between the nasals and the frontals A. riolacea. 

 Two pairs of prsefrontals in a transverse line between the nasals 



and the frontals A. (ptadrifrons. 



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