490 Annals of the South African 2Iuseum. 



Cape Colony : Cape Town ( ?) ; Malmesbuiy (Gird) ; Clanwilliam 

 (Leipoldt); Port Elizabeth (Drege) ; Dunbrody, Uitenhage 

 Division (O'Neil) ; Van Eyn's Dorp (A. W. Eogers) ; Little 

 Namaqualand (P6ringuey, Turle, Schlechter, Strauss). 



8. TYPHLOSAUEUS. 

 Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 11 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 432. 



Six Species. 



I. Kostral not longer than the other head-shields together. 



16 scales round the body ; three azygous shields on the head, 



behind the rostral T.creqoi. 



14 scales round the body ; two azygous shields on the head, behind 



the rostral T. lineatas. 



12 scales I'ound the body ; two azygous shields on the head, behind 



the rostral T. aurantiacus. 



II. Rostral a little longer than the other head-shields together ; 

 interparietal shorter than frontal ; 14 scales round the body T.vwyLi-i. 



III. Rostral at least twice as long as the other head-shields 

 together. 



14 scales round the body T. ciccus. 



12 scales round the body T. vermis. 



1. Typhlosaurus cregoi, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xii., 



1903, p. 434. 

 Transvaal. 



2. Typhlosaurus lineatus, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 432, pi. xxxviii. 



fig. 3. 

 Southern Ehodesia, Little Namaqualand. 

 Loc. (?) No history. 



3. Typhlosaurus aurantiacus. 



Typhlinc aurantiaca, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1854, p. 620. 

 TyjMosaurus aurantiacus, Bouleng., t.c, p. 433. 

 Zululand, Portuguese East Africa. 

 Loc. (?) No history. 



4. Typhlosaurus meyeri, Boettg. Abh. Mus. Dresd., 1892-93, 



No. 5 (1894). 

 German South West Africa. 



5. Typhlosaurus c^cus. 



Acontias ccbcus, Cuvier, E. An. ii. p. 60. 

 Typhlosaurus ccBCiis , Bouleng., t.c, p. 434. 

 Cape District. 



6. Typhlosaurus vermis, Bouleng., t.c, p. 434, pi. xxxviii. fig. 4. 

 Cape Colony : Little Namaqualand (Lightfoot, Howard). 



