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tude of 6500 feet, between 30th of May and 19tli of July 

 1920. 



Mabuia varia Peters. 2 specimens collected about 9 

 miles north of Londiani, 7^ 1920. 20 specimens from Mt. 

 Elgon, altitude from 11000 to 13500 feet, 27-20^^ ]92o, coll. 

 S. A. Loven. It is of interest to state that this lizard is at 

 home as well at such a great altitude as below the mountain. 

 1 sp. from Machakos, April 1920, coll. G. Lindblom. 



Mabuia striata Peters. 5 sp. from Mombasa V^; 2 sp. 

 from Nairobi 74 1920; 3 sp. from Mt. Elgon, altitude 6500 

 feet, May and June 1920, coll. H. Gran vik. 1 sp. eastern 

 slopes of Elgon 8000 f. 7? 1920, coll. S. A. Lovén. 1 sp. 

 from the Kitosh country south of Elgon, caught in a native 

 hut by Dr. G. Lindblom. 



Mabuia (striata? var. ) irregularis n? On the steppe at Soy 

 Mr. Granvik has collected a very stränge looking Mahuia 

 the 17th of May 1920. Its appearance is very different from 

 a normal M. striata in the following points. The frön tonasal 

 is broken up in three fully separated pieces, an anterior pair 

 and a posterior single one. Taken together these three stånd, 

 however, in the same relation to the adjoining shields as the 

 frontonasal in a normal specimen of M. striata. Otherwise 

 BocrLENGER's diagnose of M. striata fits to this specimen 

 with regard to the head-shields. The following items may be 

 especially mentioned regarding such cases as the species 

 mentioned is known to vary. The anterior loreal is not in 

 contact with the first labial. The subocular does not reach 

 the lip. The frontal is not as long as the frontoparietals 

 a.nd the interparietal together (but the same is also the case 

 in some quite typical specimens of M. striata). The parietals 

 are not in contact behind the interparietal. There are two 

 pairs of enlarged nuchals behind each other, each of these 

 scales corresponding to two rows of body scales. The nuchals 

 are obsoletely pluricarinate, the body scales, which are pre- 

 sent in 34 rows, are tricarinate. 



Length from snout to vent 49 mm.; tail 68 mm. 



The colour pattern is very remarkable as it differs most 

 conspicuously from that of M. striata. The ground colour 

 of the upper side is practically black, the head-shields being 

 olive brown edged and marbled with black. Mesially on 



