LONNBERO, REPTILIA AND BATRAC'HIA. 



This species is widely distributed and also found at many places in German 

 East Africa. 1 



Fam. Varan Ida 1 . 



Varanus nilotieus (LINNE). 



Vdnntit* Hilolifii* (LiN.). BOULENGER Cat. Lizards II p. 317. 

 2 specimens. Tanga. 



Varainis ocellatns RUPPELL. 



Varanus oct'Ualii* RUPPEL. BOULENGER Cat. Lizards II p. 308. 

 1 specimen from the steppe with acacia forests near the river Ngare na nyuki. 

 Dec. 1905. 



This species was originally described from Abyssinia, but it was already known 

 before that its distribution extended so far south as to Usambara. 



Fam. Lacertida?. 



Laccrta jack son! BOULENGER. (kibonotensis n. subsp?> 

 Lacerta jacksoni BOULENGER. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1899 p. 96. 



1 fine specimen caught on the trunk of a tree, Kibonoto M /9 1995. - 1 speci- 

 men from a banana plantation, Kibonoto 6 U 1906. 3 specimens from Kibonoto, 

 caught in May 1906. - 1 specimen from Mombo, Usambara, June 1906. 



It was of great interest to receive some specimens of this kind of lizards which 

 originally was described by BOULENGER on a single male specimen from Ravine 

 station, Man Mountains on the main route from Mombasa to lake Victoria at an 

 altitude of 7,500 feet. Through Professor SJOSTEDT'S specimens from different loca- 

 lities the species is proved to have a considerable distribution and not to be confined 

 to a single mountain range. 



There is very little discrepancy between the Kibonoto specimens and BOULEN- 

 GER'S description and figures except the following. One of the former specimens has 

 5 labials on one side, and 4 on the other, in front of the subocular. The collar is 

 composed of 7 or 8 plates (10 in the type) the outer of which on either side is rather 

 small. In the Mombo specimen the collar consists of 8 plates and the interparietal is 

 anomalous being transversally divided into two plates. The latter is also the case 

 with a specimen from Kibonoto. In his description 2 BOULENGER says temple gra- 

 nular . With regard to these specimens the word granular appears to be less suit- 

 able as the scales in the corresponding region of the present specimens are, although 

 irregular, larger than the dorsal scales. To judge from BOULENGER" s figure the scales 

 of the temporal region of the type-specimen appear to be smaller and consequently 

 more numerous than in the specimens from Kibonoto. Thus in the figure 8 rows 



1 TI;NIER. Reptilien, Thierwelt Ost-Afrikas. 

 3 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lomlou 1899 p. 9697. 



