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(o almost bluish givy. the small black spots began to appear. In a few moments 

 the dark cloud over the skin disappeared and the whole animal became grass green, 

 densely beset with sharply defined dark spots of the size of a hemp-seed. After a 

 few minutes of rest these have again disappeared and the green ground colour pre- 

 vails. When touched again it was scattered all over with yellow spots of hemp-seed 

 size which before my eyes rapidly changed to dark, and at the same time the great 

 dark clouds put in appearance. 



The male is nearly always cloudy and had, to match the dark surroundings of 

 the station house, assumed a stone brown ground colour, between the clouds, soon 

 changing to green, not so clear and light, however, as in the female. Sometimes the 

 whole animal was uniformly stone brown as gneis, with a rusty reddish lateral band.* 



BOHM has also observed the colour changes of this species and tried to discern 

 three local varieties according to the colour. 1 Strange enough the description by 

 SJOSTEDT (conf. above) agrees best with BOHM'S Form. I which is STUHLMANN'S 

 <Kiistenform. 



Clianiii'lcon hitu'iiiuf us FISCHER. 

 Ch'tiiiK'leini liilicttitilux FISCHER. Jahrb. wiss. Anst. Hamburg f. 1883, p. 83. 



2 specimens from Kiboscho, Kilimandjaro, mountain meadows above the forest 

 region, 3,000 m. above the sea, Febr. 1906. 



The flat tubercles on the sides form two distinct bands in the larger specimen, 

 but no knob is found on the snout. Dorsal crest formed by groups of 2 4 enlarged 

 scales. Head and anterior part of body dark, flanks towards the lumbo-sacral region 

 and belly clouded with lighter. 



Length from snout to vent about 58 mm. in the larger specimen. 



This species appears to be a real mountain loving chama?leon as it has been 

 recorded not only from Kilimandjaro before (VoLKENs conf. TORNIER f. c.) but also 

 from other places, as for instance, Leikipia 6,000 feet*. Man Mountains, Gurui 3,000 

 3.200 m. etc. 



Clianiirlcnii hitifiiiutus FISCHER n. \ar. 



1 specimen Kibonoto, Kilimandjaro. 



This specimen resembles Gk. b. dioti (GUNTHER) in having the parietal crest 

 divided anteriorly in three rows of tubercles, the lateral of which diverge from the 

 median one towards the superciliary ridges. About every fourth of the conical tu- 

 bercles forming the dorsal crest is larger than the others. 



Large flat tubercles form on either side two continuous longitudial bands, but 

 in addition to this a great number of flat tubercles are intermixed with smaller and 

 larger granules of all sizes which constitute the lepidosis of this chamseleon. The 

 gular and ventral crests are formed by rather blunt and flattened tubercles. No knob 



Cunt'. T'IKMEK Iii'jptilit'ii \>. 4s in l)jr Tlnmvrlt <Kt-Afrik;i>. 



