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Lacertidae. 



1. 2. 3. 4. 



7. 



9. 



var. holuhi. 

 Yg. Umfolosi E., Zululand 



? De Kaap Goldfields, Transvaal 

 Yg. Pretoria, 



S Eustenburg, 



5 Lydenbiirg, 



Zoutpansberg 

 Bulawayo 



Bindiira, S. Rhodesia, S.A.M. 

 L. Nyassa .... 



Dongwenna, Mossamedes 



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1. Length from snout to vent. 2. Nvimber of scales across middle of body. 

 3. Longitudinal series of ventral plates. 4. Transverse series of ventral plates. 

 5. Plates in collar. 6. Gular scales in a straight line between symphysis of 

 chin-shields and median collar-plate. 7. Femoral pores (right and left if differ- 

 ing). 8. Lamellar scales under fourth toe. 9. Scales between siipraoculars and 

 superciliaries. 



Habitat. — The range of JV. interfexta extends from Portuguese East 

 Africa, Nyassaland, and Angola to the northern and eastern 2)arts of 

 Cape Colony. 



5. NUCEAS TESSELLATA. 



Lacerta tessellata, A. Smith, Mag. N. H. (2) ii, 1838, p. 92 ; Duui. 

 & Bibr. Erp. G<'n. v, p. 244 (1839) ; Bedriaga, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 

 1886, p. 374. 



Lacerta livida, A. Smith, I.e. 



Lacerta elegans, A. Smith, I.e. 



Lacerta tseniolata, A. Smith, t.c, p. 93 ; Dum. & Bibr. t.c, p. 247; 

 Bedriaga, t.c, p. 381. 



Zootoca tseniolata, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 29 (1845). 



Nucras tessellata, Gray, op. cit., p. 33 ; Werner, Jen. Denkschr. iv, 

 1910, p. 329 ; Bouleng. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. xiii, 1917, p. 212, pi. vii. 



Teira ornata. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 58. 



Lacerta tessellata, part., Peters, Reise Mossamb. iii,p. 44 (1882). 



Lacerta tessellata, subsp. pseudotessellata, Bedriaga, t.c, p. 377, pi., 

 figs. 8, 21. 



Nucras tessellata, part., Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 52 (1887). 



Nucras tessellata, var. elegans, livida, tseniolata, Bouleng. Ann. S. 

 Afr. Mus. V, 1910, p. 474. 



