CATALOGUE OF SHIELD REPTILES. 



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Coleopeltis Cuvieri, J. Mutter (fide A. Smith). 

 Lepidosternon Hemprichii, Wiegm. 



Hnb. Brazil (Miiller). 



B. The pectoral disk formed of six or eight elongate longi- 

 tudinal parallel shields ; head-shield single. Africa. 



3. MONOTROPHIS. 



The head covered with a single nail-like shield, without 

 any slits on the hinder part of its side edge ; the rostral 

 plate between the nasal plates transverse, four-sided, 

 broader than high ; the shields of the sternal disk regular, 

 broad and truncated in front ; the rings of shields in front 

 of the sternal disk formed of regular square shields, like 

 those on the rest of the body. 



Monotrophis, A. Smith, Zool. S. Africa, Rept. t. 47. 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 454. 



1. Monotrophis capensis. 



B.M. 



Monotrophis capensis, A. Smith, Zool.S. Africa, Rept. t. 47 

 (white ; pink when alive). 

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 454. 



Hah. S. Africa (B. II.). The type specimen of Sir An- 

 drew Smith. 



Dr. Peters records Monotrophis capensis as found in 

 Mozambique ; but on comparison it may prove a distinct 

 species. In my notes I have a reference to Lepidosternon 

 sphenorhynclunn, Peters, MS., as an East- African species; 

 but I cannot find it described or noticed anywhere. Can 



it be the name Dr. Peters gave to his Monotrophis before 

 lip discovered that it had been described by Sir Andrew 



Smith? 



4. DALOPHIA. 



The head covered with a single nail-like shield, with a 



Fig. 



Fig. 24. 



Dalophia Welwitschii. 



linear slit on the hinder part of its side edges ; the rostr; 

 plate small, triangular, with the point upwards between 

 the nasal plates ; the shields of the sternal disk rather 

 irregular, but symmetrical, each with an acute front edge ; 

 the rings of shields in front of the sternal disk formed • >! 

 unequal but symmetrical polygonal shields. 



Dalophia, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 454. 



1. Dalophia Welwitschii. 



B.M. 



Dalophia Welwitschii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 455, f. 7, 8. 

 Monotrophis capensis, G-iiiUher, MS. B.M. (not A. Smith). 



Pale brown. 



Hah. Angola; Pungo Andongo ( Welwitsch, B.M.). 



