Beviscd List of Soutli African Beptilcs and Batrachians.^ 487 



South Africa, Angola, Central and East Africa. 

 Natal : Malvern (Bowker). 

 Transvaal : Johannesburg (Eoss). 



4. SCELOTES. 

 Fitzing. N. Class. Rept. p. 23 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 408. 



Eiglit Species in South Africa. 



I. Both pairs of limbs present. 



Limbs pentadactyle ; 22 scales round the body S. capcnsix. 



Limbs tridactyle ; second and third fingers equal; 20 scales round 



the body S. cafer. 



Limbs tridactyle ; third finger shorter than second ; IS scales 



round the body -S'. tridactijlus. 



II. Fore limbs absent ; 18 or 20 scales round the body. 

 Hind limb didactyle ; supranasal in contact with the first labial . . S. hipes. 

 Hind limb monodactyle ; supranasal in contact with the first labial S. (jronovii. 

 Hind limb represented by a bud-like rudiment ; a postnasal 



between the supranasal and the first labial S. guenthcri. 



III. No trace of limbs externally; supranasal in contact with the 



first labial. 

 Four supraoculars, three in contact with the frontal ; body cylin- 

 drical S. inoniatns. 



Three supraoculars ; body subquadrangular .S'. hicolor. 



1. SCELOTES CAPENSIS. 



Gongylus capcnsis, Smith, 111., Eept., App. p. 10. 

 Scelotes capensis, Bouleng., t.c., p. 412, pi. xxxiv. fig. 1. 

 "Western coast of South Africa." 



2. Scelotes tridactylus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 413, pi. xxxiv. fig. 2. 

 Cape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Schlechter) ; Bushmanland 



(Alston). 



3. Scelotes caffeb. 



Sepomorjjhus caffcr, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1861, p. 422. 

 Scelotes caffer, Bouleng., t.c, p. 413. 

 Cape Colony: Dunbrody (J. O'Neil). 



4. Scelotes bipes. 



Anguis bipes, Linn. S. N. i. p. 390. 



Scelotes hipes, Bouleng., t.c, p. 414. 



Cape Colony, German South-West Africa. 



Cape Colony : Cape Division (Sclater, Purcell, Beard) ; Eobben 



Island (Oakley, Lightfoot) ; Calvinia (Leipoldt) ; Clanwilliam 



(Lightfoot, Slabber). 

 Portuguese East Africa : Delagoa Bay (De Coster). 



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