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Show 306 DISCUSSION ON THE FAUNA OF [May 5, In the following list I have enumerated all the Reptiles and Batrachians of British Central Africa of which specimens with localities are preserved in the British Museum. LIZARDS. 1. H E M I D A C T Y L U S MABOUIA, Mor.; Cat. Liz. i. p. 122. Shire Valley. 2. PACHYDACTYLUS OSHAUGHNESSYI, Blgr. ; Cat. Liz. i. p. 204, pi. xvi. fig. 3. Lake Nyassa (Thehvall; Simons). 3. V A R A N U S ALBIGULARIS, Daud. ; Cat. Liz. ii. p. 308. Lake Nyassa. 4. M O N O P E L T I S S P H E N O R H Y N C H U S , Ptrs.; Cat. Liz. ii. p. 455. Shire Valley. 5. N U C R A S TESSELLATA, Smith ; Cat. Liz. iii. p. 52. Lake Nyassa. 6. L Y G O S O M A SUNDEVALLI, Smith ; Cat. Liz. iii. p. 307. Lake Nyassa (Thehvall). 7. A B L E P H A R U S W A H L B E R G I , Smith ; Cat. Liz. iii. p. 350. Lake Nyassa (Thelwall). SNAKES. 8. TYPHLOPS OBTUSUS, Ptrs. Typhlops obtusus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1865, p. 260, pi.-. fig. 2, and Reise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 95 (1882). Shire Valley. 9. SlMOCEPHALUS NYASSA, Gthr. Simocephalus nyassce, Giinther, Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) i. 1888, p. 328. Lake Nyassa. 10. P R O S Y M N A AMBIGUA, Bocage. Prosymna ambigua, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 218. Shire Valley. 11. C H L O R O P H I S IRREGULARIS, Leach. Ahcetulla irregularis, Giinth. Cat. Col. Sn. p. 152 (1858). Philothamnus irregularis, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ix. 1882, p. 4. Ahcetulla shirana, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) i. 1888, p. 326. Shire' Valley, Blantyre Mission Station (Simons). |