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21. BouLENGEE, G. A. On the Reptiles and Batrachians obtained in Morocco by 

 Mr. Henry Vaucher. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) iii. 1889, pp. 303-307. 



A list of 23 species from the vicinity of Tangier. 



New to Morocco: — Lacerta ocellata, var. tangitana, Blgr., Chalcides lineatus, Leuck., 

 Salamandra maculosa, Laiir. 



Catalogue of the Reptiles and Batrachians. 



REPTILIA. 



The Reptiles with which we have to deal in this Fauna belong to two Orders : — 



I. CHELONIA, Tortoises and Turtles, in which the body is encased in a bony shell and the jaws 

 are destitute of teeth. 

 II. SftUAlTATA, Lizards, Chameleons, and Snakes, with the body covered with scales and the 

 jaws armed with teeth. They are divided into three Suborders. 



Order I. CHELONIA. 



Apart from the Marine Turtles, three genera of Chelonia, each represented by a 

 single species, occur in Barbary, which are easily distinguished : — 



Limbs club-shaped ; terrestrial 1. Testudo. 



Digits webbed ; aquatic; 



Plastron connected with the carapace by ligament . 2. Emys, 



Plastron united with the carapace by suture 3. Clemmys. 



All three of which belong to a single family. 



Fam. 1. TESTUDINID^. 



1. Testudo, Linnseus, 1766. 



Shell very convex. Head covered with horny shields. Alveolar surface of upper 

 jaw with ridges. Limbs club-shaped. Terrestrial and herbivorous. 



1. Testudo ibera, Pallas, 1831. 

 T. grreca, Poiret, Kozet. — T. mauritanica, Guichenot. — T.pusilla, Strauch. 



Supracaudal marginal shield undivided, never spread out and subhorizontal. Hind 

 lobe of plastron movable in the adults ; suture between the humeral plastral shields 

 much longer than that between the pectorals ; suture between the anal shields nearly 



