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388 GEOGRAPHICAL ZOOLOGY. [part IV.
large species belonging to the Pythonidse, so that we are evi-
dently stni very far from knowing anything of the earliest forms
of this order. In some of the later Tertiary deposits the poison
fangs of venomous species have been found ; also a Colubrine
snake from the Upper Miocene of the South of France.
Order IL—LACERTILIA.
Family 26.—TEOGONOPHID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.)
Neotropical,
scb-regions.
Nearctic
sub-begions.
General Distribution.
Pal^arctic Ethiopian i
Oriental
Sub-regions. Sub-regions. Sub-regions.
2 -
Australian
Sub-regions.
The single species of Trogonophis, forming this family, is found
only in North Africa.
Xeotropical
Sub-regions.
Family 27.—CHIEOTID^. (1 Genus, 1 Species.)
Nearctic
Sub-regions.
General Distribution.
Paljearctic
Sub-regions.
Ethiopian
Sub-regions.
Oriental
Sub-regions.
Australian
Sub-regions.
Chirotes, the genus which constitutes this family, inhabits
Mexico, and has also been found in Missouri, one of the Southern
United States.
Family 28.—AMPHISB^NID^. (1 Genus, 13 Species.)
Neotropical
Sub-regions.
1 .a — 4
Nearctic
Sub-regions.
General Distribution.
Pal^abctic
Sub-regions.
_a —
Ethiopian
Sub-regions.
1.2
Oriental
Sub-regions.
Australian
Sub-regions.