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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 



[part IV. 



large species belonging to the Pythonidfe, so that we are evi- 

 dently still very far from knowing anything of the earliest forms 

 of this order. In some of the later Tertiary deposits the poison 

 fangs of venomous species have been found ; also a Colubrine 

 snake from the Upper Miocene of the South of France. 



Order IL—LACERTILIA. 



Family 26.— TEOGONOPHID^ (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 scb-reoions. 



Nearctic 

 sub-beoions. 



Pal.«arctic Ethiopian i Oriental 

 SuB-REQioNs. Sub-regions. Sdb-reoions. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



— 2 — 



The single species of Trogonophis, forming this family, is found 

 only in North Africa. 



Family 27.— CHIEOTID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 



General Distribution, 



Xeotropical Nearctic Pal^arctic Ethiopian Oriental Australian 



8l"b-reoion3. sub-begions. 8ub-regi0ns. sub-regions. sub-reoions. sub-regions. 



Chirotes, the genus which constitutes this family, inhabits 

 Mexico, and has also been found in Missouri, one of the Southern 

 United States. 



Family 28.— AMPHISBiENID^. (1 Genus, 13 Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Neotropical 

 sub-regi0n8. 



1 .a — 4 



Nearctic 

 sub-regions. 



pal.earctic 

 Sub-reoions. 



_a — 



Ethiopian 

 Sub-regions. 



1 .a 



Oriental 

 Sub-regions. 



Austrauan 

 Sub-regions. 



