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GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. 
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Family 31. — HE LODEKMIDyE. (1 Genus, 1 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
SUB-REGIONS. 
N EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Pai^e arctic 1 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 1 
Sub-regions, 
Oriental 
Sub- regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions, 
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The genus Heloderma, which constitutes this family, is found 
in Mexico. 
Family 32. — TEID/E. (12 Genera, 74 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions, 
Ne ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Palearotic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions, 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Teidie, or Teguexins — a group of Lizards allied to the 
European Lacertidae, but with differently formed superciliary 
scales— are highly characteristic of the Neotropical region, 
abounding almost everywhere from Patagonia to the Antilles 
and Mexico, and extending northwards to California on the west 
and to Pennsylvania on the east. The most extensive genus is 
Ameiva, containing nearly 60 species and having the range of 
the entire family ; Teius (3 sp.), inhabits Brazil and Mendoza ; 
CaLlojpistes (2 sp.), Chili; Cmtropyx (3 sp.), Paraguay to Alabama ; 
Dicrodon (Peru); Monoplocus (Western Ecuador)'; with Acvantus , 
A cantKopyga, Mmminia , Crocodilurus , Custa , and Ada , which 
each consist of a single species, and all inhabit Tropical America. 
Family 33. — LACEBTIDJL (18 Genera, 80 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
N eotropical 
Sub-regions. 
N EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Pal^ ARCTIC | 
Sub-regions. 
I Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub- regions. 
1 Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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