712 AFKICAN KErriLKS AND IJATHAClllAISS STEJNEUKK. 



tioiM'd ishiiids.* The lu'i])et(>l(>,iiic;il result is only tliiet' species of lizards 



ill each island, but it is not siii)i)osed that the fauua of these islands is 



exhausted. The lollowiiig- is a list of the si)ecies collected by Dr. 



Abbott: 



Gloriosa. 



HemUlaciijhis mahonUt. 



/oitotKdiriiN nunhKiiixcnr'icnsis. 

 A hlephavHS (jloriofrnx. 



Aldabra. 



Phehnma abhutti. 



Hem ida c'tij J k x m a ho it ia . 

 .tlilcplioiKs j)(>('cil<>i)h'iinis. 



The Seychelles, on the other hand, are by this time pretty well ex- 

 l»lored, thoujih it is to be reji'rerted tliat the collectors so far have neg- 

 lected to furnish data by which it would liave been possible to ascer- 

 tain the distribution of the species in the various islands composing 

 the group. Xe\ertheless, Dr. Abbott's collections have added several 

 additions to the fauna of these interesting islands, including two species 

 hitherto undescribed, one of which belongs to a genus hitherto only 

 found in Australia. 



The only list of the re])tiles and batrachians of the Seychelles, so far 

 as 1 know, is given in Wallace's Fsland Life (London, 1881, i)p. 31>o- 

 .')97). He enumerates eleven species as found in the grouj), five of 

 which he considers jieculiar to the islands. Since then it has been 

 learned that two of the species enumerated by him, viz, Jioa'dQu f/eo- 

 vtetricuH and (kieeilia rostraUi, in reality are peculiar, tliough at that 

 time supposed to occur in otlier localities as well, making the ])eculiar 

 species seven. To-day we know lifteen land si)ecies as occurring Avith 

 certainty, ten of which are peculiar, while a number of additional names 

 may be regarded as of doubtful occurrence. The following is a revised 

 list, the full exi)lanatioii of which will be found further on in this pai)er, 

 under the head of the various species. The names in brackets are those 

 of Wallace's list: 



SEYCHELLES. 



' Donotes that the species is considered peculiar to the groii]*. 

 t Denotes that s])ecimeii8 are in the l'. S. National Mnseuiii. 



(Chcloiic imhricfttd, tide I'eters, Monatsli. I'.crlin, IStiti, p. SS7.) 

 tl. kStenii>lh<vriiS iiiiiricaiix. 

 'iStfniotluvnin sinKotiix. 

 t2. Heiiiiducljiliis mahonhf. 

 ^ Hem idiiiliil IIS /renal iix. 

 'f3. Dijilodarli/his iiitjjicctatiis. 

 \\. /'hi'lstniKi iiKKhiiiascnriciixi | I'll. < r|i<(li,inu.s]. 



^One .species of lizard is so far recorded linni ( Mui io.s.i hy Dr. (iiinthcr :is derrhono- 

 fiis DKiditijaxrariinsiH (Zool. Coll. 'Alert,' ISSI, ji. Isdj evidently a la]isns Ini /.iinu- 

 atiiintx luadiKjiincaritiiHis. 



