472 Annals q tJte South African Museum. 



1. Amphisb^na violacea, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 620 ; 



Bouleng., t.c, p. 446. 

 Amphisbcena capensis, Thominot, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) xi. 1887, 



p. 188. 

 Zululand, Portuguese East Africa, Bechuanaland. 



2. Ajiphisb^na quadrifrons, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1862, p. 26 ; 



Bouleng., t.c, p. 447. 

 German South- West Africa, Ehodesia. 

 North-West Ehodesia : Sesheke, Barotseland (Jalla). 



2. CHIRINDIA. 

 Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xx., 1907, p. 48. 



I. Chirindia swynnertoxi, Bouleng., I.e., fig. 

 Southern Rhodesia : Chirinda Forest,|^Mashonaland. 



3. MONOPELTIS. 

 Smith, 111., Kept.; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 453. 



Six Sjjrcies in South Africa. 



I. A single large shield on the head. 



A. Tail rounded at the end; rostral shield ^tetragonal, 

 separating the nasals. 



3 pairs of large pectoral plates ; 40 to oO segments round the 



body ,V. capensu. 



2 pairs of large pectoral plates ; 34 segments round the body . . .1/. decosteri. 



B. Tail truncate at the end ; nasals in contact above the 

 rostral ; 3 pairs of large pectoral plates ; 28 to 32 seg- 

 ments round the body. 



Snout (seen from above or below) very pointed M. granti. 



Snout rounded .1/. colobnra. 



II. Two large shields on the head, completely or incompletely 

 divided by a transverse suture ; tail rounded at the end ; 

 rostral hexagonal, much wider at the base than above, 

 separating the nasals. 



3 pairs of large pectoral plates .1/. leonhardi. 



2 pairs of large pectoral plates M. qiiadriscutata. 



1. MoNOPELTis C.A.PENSIS, Smith, I.e., pi. Ixvii. ; Bouleng., i.e., p. 455. 

 Northern parts of Cape Colony, German South-West Africa, 



Angola. 

 Cape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Kisch). 



2. MONOPELTIS DECOSTERI, Sp. n. 



Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



