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EDITORS' NOTES 



The preceding translation is not a direct or literate one. We believed it 

 necessary to take the translation by Scitran and modified the choice of words 

 and phraseology to conform with current scientific English. We consistently 

 changed the lizard group names to anglicized familial names, e.g., iguanes to 

 iguanids, geckos to gekkonids. Similarly we changed Sukhanov's Scinco- 

 Geckonomorpha to Scincogekkonomorpha and other such spellings to conform to current 

 taxonomic usage. Scientific names are not italized or underlined in order to keep 

 the single spaced typewritten copy uncluttered and, thus, more readable. 



We wish to thank A. G. Kluge for bringing this important study on lizard classifica- 

 tion to our attention and G. Jacobs for its translation. 



S. Moody and G. Zug 



