3. PLATYSAURUS.—4. CHAMESAURA. 263 
with an occipital which may be broken up into two or three parts ; 
four or five upper labials anterior to second infraorbital; no enlarged 
gulars on the median line. Femoral pores seventeen or eighteen 
in the female, twenty-one in the male. A black gular collar. 
Total length 185 millim. ; tail 113. 
Mossambique. 
4, CHAMASAURA. 
Chameesaura, part. Schneid. Hist. Amph. p. 204. 
Monodactylus, Merrem, Tent. Syst. Amph., p. 76. 
Chameesaura, Ftzing. Neue Class. Rept. p. 18; Wagler, Syst. Amph. 
p. 157; Dum. §& Bibr. v. p. 488; Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 61. 
Cricochalcis, WWiegm. Handb. der Zool. p. 185, and Herp. Mex. p.11; 
Peters, Abh. Berl, Ac. 1862, p. 166. 
Mancus, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 339. 
Body serpentiform, tail extremely long; limbs rudimentary. 
Head-shields regular; nostril pierced in the nasal. Har-opening 
moderate. Scales on the body and tail uniform, lanceolate, strongly 
keeled, strongly imbricate, forming transverse series; the median 
dorsal scales larger than the others. Femoral pores. 
South Africa. 
Synopsis of the Species. 
Both pairs of limbs present, pentadactyle .. 1. @nea, p. 263. 
Both pairs of limbs present, styliform, un- 
Oividedss:. jy eaces eres aond aoa a aedcsh oa 2. anguina, p. 264. 
Fore limbs absent ........--. eee ee eens 3. macrolepis, p. 264. 
1. Chamesaura enea. 
Cricochalcis zenea (Wiegm.), Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 21; Peters, 1. e. 
Chamesaura miodactyla, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (5) vi. 1880, 
p. 235, fig. 
Both pairs of limbs present, with five unequal clawed digits. 
Head-shields strongly striated; frontonasal in contact with the 
rostral, separating the nasals, followed by a pair of prefrontals 
forming a median suture; frontal hexagonal; four subequal pari- 
etals, hardly larger than the frontoparietals, the anterior pair 
separated by an interparietal, the posterior by an occipital ; three 
supraoculars, anterior largest ; three supraciliaries, anterior largest; 
nasal large, pierced iu its lower anterior portion; two superposed 
loreals; a large preorbital; a large infraorbital, bordering the lip, 
separating the third and fourth, or the fourth and fifth labials ; 
upper labials four or five; rostral five times as broad as high; 
temples covered with imbricate keeled scales. Four lower labials, 
bordered by four large shields, the anterior pair of which form 
a suture. Scales on the body in twenty-eight longitudinal and 
forty-two transverse series. Three femoral pores on each side. 
Back with two broad dark brown longitudinal bands separating 
three narrower yellow bands; lower parts greenish white. 
