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Show 3 906.] ON A SOUTH AFRICAN DIAPTOSAURIAN REPTILE. 591 46. L epus zu lu e n s is Thos. & Schw. d*. 1151, 1166, 1174, 1355. $ . 1152, 1180, 1206, 1213. " Basuto name ‘ Muda.' " Very common in all stony places. It is not found on the flat open country round Pietersburg, where it is replaced by Lepus ochropus"-C. H. B. G. 47. L epus ochropus W a g n . 2 • 1215. Pietersburg. " Common, but confined to the high veldt round Pietersburg."- C. H. B. G. 48. P ronolagus crass icaudatus Geoff. 6 juv. 1328. " Curiously uncommon, considering the great stretches of country suited to its habits. I only observed two of these Hares during my stay here."-C. H. B. G. 49. P ro c avia capensis P a ll. J . 1182. 1194, 1344. " Basuto name 1 Imbile.' " Not nearly so common as P. brucei, with which it inhabits the same kopjes and krantzes. Diurnal only."-C. H. B. G. 50. P ro c avia b r u c e i Gray. d . 1133, 1342. £ . 1184, 1193, 1354, 1359. " Basuto name i Imbile.' " This species is much commoner than P. capensis, but is much more difficult to secure, being more wary."-C. H. B. G. 51. C e ph a lo ph u s g r im m ii L. c?. 1214. $ . 1129, 1167, 1341, 1351. " Basuto name 1 Imputi.' " Common at Woodbush, but scarcer on the flats round Pietersburg. It feeds during the night and spends the day lying on the kopjes".-C. H. B. G. 2. On the South African Diaptosaurian Reptile Howesia. B y R. B r o om , M.D., D.Sc., C.M.Z.S., Victoria College, Stellenbosch. [Received May 15, 1906.] (Plates XL. & XLI.*) About a year ago I published in the Records of the Albany Museum t a preliminary notice of a very interesting small * For explanation of the Plates, see p. 600. f " Preliminary Notice of some new Fossil Reptiles collected by Mr. Alfred Brown at Aliwal North, S. Africa." Rec. Alb. Mus. Grahamstown, vol. i. pt. iv. p. 269 (1905). P roc. Z ool. Soc.-1906, No. XL. 40 |
