CHELONIA VIRGATA, Schmeig. Prodr. arch. Eonisgh. tom. i. page 291 et 411, sp. 4. Cm.
Reg. Animal, tom. ii. page 14. Dum. 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 Schleg. Faun. Japon. Chelon. page 15, tab. 5, figs. 1
and 2. Chelonia Imbricata. Dim. et Bib. Erpet. Gen. tom. ii. page 547.
Found in the seas around the Cape of Good Hope.
CAOUANA DESSTJMIERII. Chelonia Dessumierii, Dum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. ii. p. 557.
Chelonia Olivacea. Eschscholtz, 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 in
specimens like the one f 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. Dum. 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.
CROCODILES MARGINATUS.—Geoff. Croc, d’Egypt, page 165. Crocodilus Vulgaris, var. C,
Dum. 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 PUMILUS.—Latr. Hist. Rept. tom. ii. page 20. Le Cameleon nain, Cm. 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 oh the branches of underwood.
CHAMiELEO 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 Chamcelio Pumilus. The chief differences
observable are, the head and occipital crest are rather longer, and some large flat scales, like
those sometimes observed on the sides of Chamcelio Pumilus, exist on the sides of the belly, intermixed
with smaller ones.
CHAMiELEO GUTTURALIS, n. s.
Occipital casque three sided, produced and pointed behind ; upper surface of the head covered
with pointed tubercles, circular or compressed; palpebral ridges and edges of occipital crest strongly
denticulated; temples intersected by a raised dentated ridge, the scales above and below large, flat, and
smooth. Back and tail surmounted with a row of three-sided tubercles; body and tail covered with
small scales and subconical tubercles; sides with two longitudinal rows of large, subovate, flat plates;
chin and throat fringed longitudinally with long, smooth, thin, narrow, and pointed lobes of skin.
Length 6$ inches. This species, which is nearly allied to Chamceleo Pumilus, is readily distinguished
by the length of the lobes forming the gutteral fringe, and their being smooth and destitute of granular
scales.
CHAMiELEO TiENIABRONCHUS, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5, p. 17, October
1831.
Yellowish green, with two longitudinal buff-stripes along each side, and four or six smooth,
oblong, jet-black stripes along the sides of the throat, best seen when the animal inflates itself, or when
the skin is extended laterally. Occipital casque narrow, produced armed, above with three dentated
ridges, one on each side, the other along the centre. Back with a ridge of short, conical tubercles inclined
backwards; chin and throat with a short, dentated, longitudinal fringe; scales of body small and granular
; temples divided longitudinally by a dentated ridge. Length of the only specimen I obtained,
which was procured in the vicinity of Algoa Bay, 4 inches 3 lines.
CHAMiELEO DILEPIS.—Leach, in Bowdich’s Ashantee, Append. No. 4, page 493.. Dum. et Bib.
Erpet. Gener. tom. iii. page 225.
Inhabits the interior of Southern Africa, and specimens are frequently obtained about Latakoo..
I never found an individual within the limits of the colony, nor even to the south of the Gariep or
Orange River,
CHAMiELEO NAMAQTJENSIS, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, No. 5, p. 17, October
1831. Chamseleo Tuberculiferus, Gray. Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards, in the collection
of the British Museum, July 1845.
Occipital casque prominent, triangular,- divided along the centre by an elevated subdentated
keel, and edged on each side by a semicircular raised ridge of the same character. Back with a row of
large granular tubercles. Scales of body and tail homogeneous, small, and granular. Length of the
adult, 9 inches. All the individuals of this species which I saw while at the Cape, were obtained in
little Namaqualand, near to the mouth of the Gariep or Orange River.
CHAMiELEO NASUTUS, Dum. et Bib. Erpet. Gener. tom. iii. page 216.
The single specimen, a male, which I possess, was obtained eastward of Port Natal, and differs
slightly from individuals procured from Madagascar. There are three isolated spines, each about a line
in length, on the vertebral line, about midway between the head and the base of the tail. Length from
nose to tail, 1 inch 10 lines; of tail, 1 inch 9 lines : appears to be an adult.
PACHYDACTYLUS MARIQUENSIS, n. s.
Head short and rather broad; body subcylindrical; tail cylindrical. Colour of upper and lateral
parts pale' pearl-grey, variegated with brownish red; the variegations are a spot in front of each eye,