286 CLASS xv. 



Sp. Bipes lineatus nob., Soridia lineata GRAY ; also very small, silver-coloured, 

 two brown longitudinal stripes and darker spots on the back in two rows. 

 This species occurs in New Holland, (see GRAY Annals of Nat. Hist. vii. 

 1841, p. 86), whence also the specimen in the Leyden Museum was 

 received from the traveller PREISS. 



b) Rudiments of hind feet didactylous, with toes unequal, unguiculate. 



Scelotes FITZ. 



Sp. Bipes anguineus GRAY, Anguis bipes L., Mus. Ad. Frid. Tab. 28, 

 fig- 3, Seps Gronovii DAUD. Rept. iv. PI. 58, fig. 2, from the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



BracJiymeles nob. (Brachymeles DUM. and BIBR., Chelomeles 

 eorumd., Brachystopus eorumd., Evesia GRAY). Kudiments of 

 four feet very short, monodactylous or didactylous. Eyelids mobile. 

 Aperture of auditory meatus very small or none. Body anguineous, 

 with scales short. 



Evesia GRAY. Rudiments of feet styliform, undivided, covered 

 with scales. Snout masked by scute. 



Brachystopus DUM., BIBR. (Rhodona GRAY). Rudiments of fore 

 feet conical, undivided, of hinder didactylous, with toes unguiculate. 



Brachymeles DUM. and BIBR. Rudiments of fore feet didactylous, 

 with toes unguiculate, of hinder undivided. Aperture of auditory 

 meatus none. 



Chelomeles DUM. and BIBR. Fore and hind feet didactylous. 



Sp. Brachymeles didactylus nob., Chelomeles quadrilineatus DUM. and BIBR. ; 

 from New Holland ; this species is the only one of this division that I have 

 been able to observe myself. Compare on these sub-genera GRAY Ann. of 

 Nat. Hist. II. pp. 335, 336, and DUM. and BIBR. Erptt. v. pp. 774 783. 



Seps DAUD. (exclusive of some species). Feet very short, 

 with three or four toes unguiculate. Apex of tongue emargi- 

 nate. Teeth conical, numerous. Eyelids mobile. Body anguine- 

 ous ; tail conical, acuminate. Scales smooth. 



a) Nostrils situated between nasal and rostral scute. Feet (posterior or 

 all) tridactylous. 



Sp. Seps chalcidica MERR., Lacerta chalcides L. (in part), Seps tridactylus 

 DAUD. Rept. iv. PI. 57, Seps striata GURIN Iconogr., Rept. PI. 15, fig. 3, 

 Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Rept. PI. 12 Us, fig. i, Seps tridactylus, Diss. inaug. 

 auctore'B. F. SICHERER, cum icone color., Tubingee, 1825, 4to; 10" to i' 



