476 Annals of the South African Museum. 



1. ICHNOTROPIS CAPENSIS. 



Algyra capensis, Smith, Mag. N. H. ii., 1838, p. 94. 



Ichnotropis capensis, Bouleng., t.c, p. 78. 



Kalahari, Zululand, Transvaal, Ehodesia, Portuguese East 



Africa, German South Africa, Angola, Congo. 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 

 Transvaal : Pietersburg (Daneel). 

 Southern Ehodesia : Matoppo Hills (Pillans). 



2. Ichnotropis longipes, Bouleng. P.Z.S., 1902, ii. p. 17, pi. iii. 



fig. 2. 

 Southern and North-Western Ehodesia. 

 North-Western Ehodesia: Livingstone (Sykes). 



3. Ichnotropis squ.\mulos.\, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 617 ; 



Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 79. 

 Kalahari, Zululand, Ehodesia, Portuguese East Africa, 



British East Africa. 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 

 Southern Ehodesia : Bulawayo (Pillans) ; Hanyaui Eiver 



(Thomas) ; Salisbury (ff. Darling). 



4. EEEMIAS. 

 Wiegm. Herp. ^Nlex. p. 9 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 80. 



Six Species in SoutJi Africa. 



I. Lower eyelid scalj-, opaque or slightly transparent. 



A. Ventral plates in 6 longitudinal series ; supraoculars 

 separated from frontal by granules E. lurjubris. 



B. Ventral plates in 10 longitudinal series or more. 

 Ventral plates in 10 or 12 longitudinal series ; distance between 

 loreal and first supraocular less than length of latter ; fronto- 

 nasal separated from rostral ; 60-65 scales across middle of 



body E. uftmaqneusU. 



Ventral plates in 14 or 16 longitudinal series ; distance between 

 loreal and first supraocular at least equal to length of latter ; 

 frontonasal separated from rostral ; 6-5-75 scales across middle 



of body E. burchelli. 



Ventral plates in 14 to 18 longitudinal series ; distance between 

 loreal and first supraocular at least equal to length of latter ; 

 frontonasal usually in contact with rostral ; 50-55 scales across 



middle of body E. capen.^i^. 



II. Lower eyelid with 2 to 5 large, black-edged scales forming a 

 transparent disk. 



Ventral plates in 10 longitudinal series E. lutdata. 



Ventral plates in 12 or 14 longitudinal series E. liiieo-vcellato. 



