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CHELONIA VIRGATA, Schweig. Prodr. arch. Konisgh. tom. i. page 291 et 411, sp. 4. Cm. 
Reg. Animal, tom. ii. page 14. Bum. et Bib . Erpet. Gen. tom. ii. page 541. 
Found in the sea around the Cape of Good Hope. 
CARETTA IMBRICATA. Testudo Imbricata, Lin. Syst. Nat. Le Caret, Cuv. Reg. Animal, 
tom. ii. page 13. Chelonia Caretta, Temm. et Sckleg. Faun. Japon. Chelon. page 15, tab. 5, figs. 1 
and 2. Chelonia Imbricata. Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gen. tom. ii. page 547. 
Found in the seas around the Cape of Good Hope. 
CAOUANA DESSUMIERII. Chelonia Dessumierii, Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. ii. p. 557. 
Chelonia Olivacea. Bschscholtz, Zool. Atl. tab. 3. 
The specimen I possess, which was captured in Table Bay, agrees in every respect with Chelonia 
Dessumierii, except that it has only twenty-five instead of twenty-seven marginal plates. Having 
frequently found the number of marginal plates to differ in different individuals of the same species, I 
do not consider the occurrence in a solitary instance sufficient to justify the individual being regarded 
as belonging to a different species. Should, however, twenty-five be found to be the usual number m 
specimens like the one I possess, and which has only one claw to the first toe, then I should be inclined 
to regard it as a distinct species. 
SPARGIS MERCURIALIS. — Merr. Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Japon. Chelon. page 6, tab. 1, 2, 
and 3. Spargis Coriacea, Gray. Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. ii. page 560. Dermatochelys 
Porcata, Wagl. Syst. Amph. page 133, tab. 1, fig. 1-23. 
Found in the sea to the south and west of the Cape of Good Hope. 
SAURIA. 
CROCODILUS MARGIN ATUS.— Geoff. Croc. d’Egypt. page 165. Crocodilus Vulgaris, var. C. 
Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. iii. page 110. Cayman of the Cape Colonists. 
Specimens are occasionally found in the rivers west of Port Natal, but abundantly in those to 
the eastwards and northward, and occur in such numbers in the rivers of a district north of Kurrichane, 
between 24° and 22° south latitude, that the natives who used to reside there were known by the 
appellation Baquana — the people of the Crocodile. 
CHAMiELEO PHMILUS.— Latr. Hist. Rept. tom. ii. page 20. Le Cameleon nain, Cuv. Reg. 
Animal, tom. ii. page 60. Bum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. iii. page 217. Trap-sutchees of the 
Cape Colonists. 
Inhabits the whole of Southern Africa, and is generally found on the branches of underwood. 
CHAM2ELEO VENTRALIS, Gray. Catal. of the Specimens of Lizards, in the British Museum, 
page 268, 1845. 
I cannot satisfy myself that this is more than a variety of Chameelio Fumlus. The chief dif- 
ferences observable are, the head and occipital crest are rather longer, and some large flat scales, like 
those sometimes observed on the sides of Chameelio Pumilus, exist on the sides of the be y, intermixed 
with smaller ones. 
