850 MK. A. loveiudue: list of the lizauus 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Uotli r"i»'s of liinbt; very distinct; 2i scales vouml tlio body. 



Hind limb didactylo annectans. 



Hind limb monodHctyle tenuior. 



II Fore limbs reduced to minute clawed vestiges ; 26 scales round the 



body mio:propus. 



1. ClIAM^SAURA ANNECTANS 131gf. 



Blgr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899, p. 97. 

 Uganda ; Kenya Colony. 



2. Cham.esaura tenuior Gtlir. 



Gthr. Ann. k Mng. N. H. ser. 6, xv. p. 524, 1895. 

 Uganda ; Tanganyika Territory. 



3. Cuam^:saura miopropus Blgr. 

 Blgr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894. p. 732. 

 Tanganyika Territory. 



]* amily V a r A N i D .e. 

 One genus. 



,1. Varanus. 

 Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph. p. 58; Blgr. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 304. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Nostril an oblique slit, three times more distant from the end of the snout 

 than from the orbit. 



Scales small ; nuchals not larger than the occipitals alligularis. 



Scales large; nuchals larger than the occipitals ocellatiis. 



II. Nostril round, a little nearer the orbit than the end of the snout . niloticus. 



1. Varanus albigularis Daud. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 307. 



Kenya Colony ; Tanganyika Territory ; Zanzibar. 



2. Varanus ocellatus Riipp. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 308. 



Kenya Colony ; Tanganyika Territory. 



3. Varanus niloticus Linn. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. ii. p. 317. 



Uganda ; Kenya Colony ; Tanganyika Territory ; Zanzibar.- 



