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whose records, moreover, agree together. It appears that pulchella belongs 
to German South- West Africa and western Cape Province, whereas lineo- 
cellata is the Transvaal, Free State, and Kalahari form. According t© 
Werner, pulchella is a very variable species with many local races. 
Eremias namaquensis D.B.— Victoria West (P. D. Morris), Middek 
burg, C.P. (P. O’Connor). 
Eremias undata Smith. — The Middelburg record (Boulenger) requires 
investigation in view of the supposed relationship between this species 
and namaquensis, which latter species certainly occurs in that locality. 
Scapteira hnoxi M. Edw. — A very common species in German South- 
West Africa (Werner) and also known from the western districts of Cape 
Province. The Durban record (Boulenger) requires confirmation, this 
being the first record from the eastern portion of this subcontinent ; indeed 
the whole genus appears to be confined to the western parts. The Comoro 
Island record of the Brit. Mus. Cat. is not now cited by Mr. Boulenger and 
is no doubt incorrect. 
Scapteira depressa Merr. — In drawing attention to the identity of 
Eremias suborbitalis Pet. with this species Mr. Boulenger suggests a con- 
venient character in the sub ocular scute for distinguishing between the 
allied genera Scapteira and Eremias. At the same time it would appear 
from the description of S. reticulata Boc. that this species has in that 
respect the same feature as the genus Eremias ; and Bocage himself 
recognized that in the conformation of its anterior digits his reticulata departs 
from the typical Scapteira so that reticulata combines the characters of 
both genera, and as S. depressa has been referred by the various authors 
to both genera it is evident that the differences between Scapteira and 
Eremias are not sharply defined. 
Scapteira reticidata Boc. — According to Dr. Werner, S. sernpes Pet. is 
a synonym of the Angola species reticulata. 
Scapteira cuneirostris Strauch. — Only known from German South- 
West Africa (Werner), and recorded from Walfisch Bay and Prince of Wales 7 
Bay. 
Gerhosaurus major A. Dum. — The distribution of this species is not s© 
disconnected as was hitherto supposed (typical form in German East Africa, 
and grandis in Zululand), for it is recorded (Manchester Memoirs, Yob 51) 
from the Feira district near the Zambezi (Boulenger). 
Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus Hallow. — This was reduced by Tornier as 
a variety of flavigularis, and his opinion was endorsed by Koux, Werner, and 
myself, but Mr. Boulenger still retains the species. I have re-examined 
our collections on this point and find that as regards the praefrontal 
character — which is, in my opinion the only character worthy of consider- 
ation — all our Cape specimens agree with flavigularis in the strict sense, 
but a single specimen from Serowe (S. Blackbeard) agrees with nigro- 
lineatus ; however, another specimen from the same locality and donor 
agrees entirely with flavigularis and as the two specimens are otherwise 
precisely identical, there can be no doubt but that they belong to a single 
species, flavigularis. G. nigrolineatus may be a distinct form in tropical 
Africa, but in South Africa the individuals that have been thus named 
are almost certainly specifically dentical with flavigularis. Werner records 
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