NOV }6 1199 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



Vol. 24. Salem: April, May, June, 1892. Nos. 4, 5, 6. 

 THE REPTILES OF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. 



Fro7n the Collections of Br. Geo. Baur. 



BY S. GARMAN. 



Chelonia, Siiuria and Ophidia have been discovered on 

 the Galapagos. Excluding the marine forms that may 

 from time to time be found on the shores, only four fami- 

 lies are represented : the Testudinidae of the tortoises, the 

 Iguanidee and the Geckonidse of the lizards, and the Colu- 

 bridas of the snakes. Neither is peculiar to the locality. 

 The sea tortoises of the Chelonidoe are known to visit the 

 beaches, and stragglers of the Sphargidse may also be 

 expected to wander there. Certain of the sea snakes, 

 Pelamis, of the Hydrophidae, frequent the waters nearer 

 the continent and may at times be captured among these 

 islands. 



Two genera of the lizards, Conolophus and Amblyrhyn- 

 chus, are found only on the Galapagos; their closest allies, 

 however, are inhabitants of the western coasts of South 



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