South African Lacertilia, Ophidia, and Batracliia. 159 
they are all very conspicuously striped. At Kimberley during the com- 
paratively mild winter of 1912 this species apparently did not hibernate. 
Lygosoma sundevalli (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., III., 307. 
Lake N'gami (J. G. Smith) ; Kyky (Miss Wilman). 
The above specimens are both fragmentary, being the dried-up scraps 
used by the natives of German S.W. Africa and Bechuanaland as the 
much-prized antidote for snake-bite. The Bushman owners of these scraps 
parted with them with the greatest reluctance. Miss Wilman tried in 
vain to procure a whole specimen of the reptile from the European 
inhabitants of Gordonia, but it appeared that they had no actual know- 
ledge of the living animal. It was believed to be very poisonous ! 
Ablepharus wahlbergi (Smith); B.M. Cat., III., 350. 
Eldorado (0. A. Kidwell). 
Scelotes bipes (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., III., 414. 
Kalk Bay (J. A. Fogarty). 
AcoNTiAS meleagris (Linn.) ; B.M. Cat., III., 427. 
Modder E. (J. H. Power) ; Oudtshoorn (J. L. Cairncross) ; Kalk Bay 
(J. H. Power). 
Typhlosaurus lineatus Boul. ; B.M. Cat., III., 432. 
Kyky (L. W.); Good Hope, Kimb. (A. Eobinson). 
This blind worm varies much in colour. Two of the Kyky specimens 
are entirely black dorsally, pale ventrally ; two others are striped, but the 
stripes are fewer than those of typical examples and consist of rows of 
isolated dots. According to Mr. S. Blackbeard, they burrow with great 
rapidity, sinking in the ground " like lead through melted butter." 
Family CHAM^LEONTID^. 
CHAMiELEON QuiLENsis Boc. ; B.M. Cat., III., 449. 
Eldorado (0. A. Kidwell) ; Kyky (L. W.) ; Kimberley (A. Davis, 
G. Gain, Mrs. Hastings, J. H. Power). 
This chameleon is exceptionally fond of locusts, and even the ill- 
smelling Zonoccrus elegans is greedily devoured. It can run tolerably 
fast on the ground. The eggs, averaging thirty-tive in number, are laid 
in deep holes excavated in the ground by the female who afterwards fills 
in the hole and levels the surface. Captive chameleons do not often 
