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keeled. Limbs moderate, with scales very unequal in size; hind 
limb reaching between the shoulder and the ear; tibia as 
long as the skull to occiput; fingers short, third longest ; 
third and fourth toes equal, or fourth very slightly the longer, 
fifth not extending as far as first. Tail shorter or a little longer 
than head and body, cylindrical or slightly compressed, covered 
with strongly keeled scales. Male without gular pouch, with a 
single row of anal pores. Olive-brown or reddish brown above, 
with dark brown or blackish spots, the principal of which form a 
double series along the back, each pair separated on the vertebral 
line by a square or QC-shaped or f)}-shaped yellowish marking ; 
lower parts whitish or greyish, with a wide-marked grey or 
blackish network, which may disappear in adult males; the latter 
always have a bluish throat. 
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A. brachyura differs from A. hispida principally in the fourth 
toe not being shorter than the third and in the absence of strong 
keels on the ventral scales. 
8. AGAMA ARMATA Peters. 
Hluhluwe Stream. 
9, AGAMA ATRA Daud. 
Klipfontein. 
Both A. micropholis Matschie (Zool. Jahrb., Syst. v. 1890, 
p- 607), and A. microterolepis Blgr. (Ann, & Mag. N. H. [6] xvii. 
1896, p. 22), from the Transvaal, must be added to the synonymy 
of this species. 
10. Zonurus potyzonus A. Smith. 
Port Nolloth, Klipfontein. 
11. PsEuUDOCORDYLUS MICROLEPIDOTUS Cuv. 
Wakkerstroom. 
12. CHAM@SAURA ANGUINA L. 
Umfolosi Station. 
13. VARANUS ALBIGULARIS Daud. 
Umfolosi Station. 
