4. REPTIL1A AND BATRACHIA 



BY 



EINAR LONNBERG. 



WITH 1 PLATE 



REPTILIA. 



The knowledge about the herpetological fauna of the Kilimandjaro-Meru region 

 is not very great as few collectors have operated there. It is the more gratifying to 

 receive now at one time such a great number of species recorded from this interesting 

 tract through the large collections of Professor YNGVE SJOSTEDT which will be described 

 in the following pages. 



Chelonia. 



In the newest list of tortoises from German East Africa TORNIER* enumerates 

 5 species, but then he unites Sternothcerus nigricans and sinuatus in one. 



Professor SJOSTEDT collected two species Testudo -pardalis and Pelomedusa ga- 

 hata in the Meru region. Both species are widely distributed in tropical Africa. 



Testudo pardalis BELL. 

 Testudo pardalis BELL. BOULENGER Cat. Chelonians p. 160. 



1 specimen with the length of the carapace about 23 cm. 1 specimen about 24 cm. 

 Near the river Ngare na nyuki in the shrubberies of the acacia forest, Meru 

 low lands. 



1 Zoul. Jalirb. Alitli. f. Syst. Gcogr. v. Bii.l. I'.d 13 Junti 1900. 

 Xjostedts Kilimandjaro-Meru Ejcpediliun. 4. 



