REPTILES I'ROM TRA.NSVAAL. 227 



NOTE XXV. 



ON A COLLECTION OF REPTILES FROM 

 TRANSVAAL 



BY 



Dr. Th. W. VAN LIDTH DE JEÜDE. 



Through the kind offices of mv friend Mr. M. Breunincf. 

 chief-engineer of the Dutch-South-African Railway-Com- 

 pany, the Leydeu Museum was enriched with a small col- 

 lection of Reptiles. Dr. Helkenberg , who collected these 

 animals at the confluence of the Comati- and the Croco- 

 dile-river, about 90 KM. inland of Loren90 Marques and 

 200 M. above the level of the sea, and who afterwards 

 presented them to our Museum , has a claim to our grati- 

 tude, as 11 species of the 23 collected ones were deside- 

 rata to our collections. 



In the following list I add an asterisk before the names 

 of the species that were not untill now represented in our 

 collections. 



Cheloniu. 



1. Pelomedusa galeata Schoepf. 

 One young specimen. 



Ijacertilia. 



2. Hemidactylus mabuia Mor. 

 One specimen. 



*3. Pachy dactylus Bibronii Smith. 

 One specimen. 



Notes from tlie Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVI. 



