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survive the winter, but we have not observed any attempt to hibernate in 
the ground. This species is not known to occur south of Kimberley, but 
ranges almost throughout tropical Africa : in South Africa its home is 
open country with scattered bush. 
Chameleon dilepis Leach ; B.M. Cat., III., 450. 
Bushman Mine, N.W. Bech. Prot. (H. McLelland). 
Chameleon namaquensis Smith; B.M. Cat., III., 462. 
Kimberley (Mrs. Hastings). 
The above record probably represents an odd straggler, as this species 
is not otherwise known to us from Kimberley. In the lung characteristics 
it is related to quilensis rather than to the section so characteristic of the 
Cape {jpumilus, ventralis, &c.). 
Chameleon pumilus Daud. ; B.M. Cat., III., 458. 
Somerset West (J. H. Power). 
Chameleon tzeniobronchus Smith; B.M. Cat., III., 458. 
East London (J. H. Power). 
The specific characters of the pumilus group of chameleons are by no 
means sharply defined and we are not satisfied that the present separation 
into species correctly represents the facts. In the single specimen above 
recorded, the gular lobes are all small, being shortest and smallest in front 
and largest in the middle ; they are all laterally compressed and covered 
with granules, those in the middle being a little broader than long, and the 
others subtriangular. There are 6 or 7 slightly enlarged tubercles more 
or less scattered along two rows on each side of the body ; they are larger 
than any of the tubercles on the tail. 
Part II.— OPHIDIA. 
Family TYPHLOPID^. 
Typhlops bibroni (Smith) ; B.M. Cat., I., 44. 
Johannesburg (Mrs. Hastings). 
Typhlops muceoso (Pet.) ; B.M. Cat., I., 46. 
Marandellas and Eldorado (O. A. Kidwell) ; Francistown (R. M. 
Daniel). 
The latter example belongs to the variety varius. 
