144 scrxciD^. 



than second. 20 scales round the bodj'. Olive-green, paler 

 beneath, scales dotted with black at the base. 



muiim. 



millim. 



Total length iU5 From snout to vent 52 



From snout to fore Fore limb 3 



limb 10 Hind limb 9 



Kaffraria. 



9. Scelotes bipes. 



Scelotes bipes, Gray, Cat. p. 123. 

 Anguis bipes, Linn. S. N. i. p. .'i90. 

 Lacerta bipes, Omel. S. N. i. p. 1079. 

 Chamsesaura bipes, part., Schneid. Hist. Amph. ii. p. 213. 

 Saps schneiderii, Daud. liept. iv. p. 348. 



gronovii, part., Daud. I. c. p. 354. 



Bipes anguineus, Merr. Tent. p. 76, and Beitr. z. Gesch. d. Amph. iii. 



p. 113, pi. X. 

 ? Pjgodactylus gronovii, Merr. I. c. p. 77. 

 Seps sexlineatus, Harlan, Journ. Acad. Philad. iv. 1824, p. 284, 



pi. xviii. fig. 2. 

 Scelotes anguineus, Fitzing. N. Classif. Hept. p. 53. 

 linnfei, Dum. ^ Bihr. v. p. 785; Gravenh. N. Acta Ac, 



Leop.-Carol. xxiii. 1851, i. p. 376, pi. xliii. 



Snout subcuneiform and projecting ; rostral very large ; eye 

 small ; lower eyelid transparent ; ear-opening minute ; supranasals 

 forming a median suture, sometimes fused into a single shield, in 

 contact with the first labial ; frontal scarcely longer than the fronto- 

 nasal, broader than long ; no prsefrontals ; three supraoculars, first 

 largest ; four supraciliaries ; interparietal the largest head-shield, 

 broader than the frontal, its anterior border concave ; parietals 

 narrow, band-like ; third upper labial entering the orbit. 18 scales 

 round the middle of the body. Fore limbs absent ; hind limbs very 

 small, with two minute clawed digits. Tail shorter than the body. 

 Pale brownish above, each scale darker in the centre ; a dark brown 

 streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye, continued 

 along the side of the body as two lines of brown dots. 



millim. millim. 



From snout to vent . . 82 Hind limb 5*5 



Tail 68 



South Africa. 



a-f, g. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. 



10. Scelotes guentheri. (Plate XXIV. fig. 3.) 



Herpetosaura inornata, part., Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (4) xii. 

 1873, p. 147. 



Snout obtuse, scarcely projecting beyond the labial margin ; eye 



