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LIZARDS 



HEMIDACTYLUS FASCIATUS Gray 



1842. Hemidactylus fasciatus Gkay, Zool. Misc., 1842, p. 58 (no locality). 

 1845. Leiurus ornatus Gray, Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the 



collection of the British Museum, p. 157 (West Africa) (monotype, 



ornatus Gray; not Leiurus Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1829, in 



Arachnida). 

 1856. Hemidactylus formosus Haixowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1856, p. 148 (Liberia). 

 1862. Liurus ornatus Cope, in Slack, Handbook of the Museum of the Academy 



of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, p. 32 (monotype, Hemidactylus 



ornatus Hallowell ; not Liurus Ehrenberg, 1828, in Arachnida). 

 1940. Aliurus ornatus Dunn and Dunn, Copeia, 1940, p. 71 (substitute name for 



Liurus Cope, preoccupied by Liurus Ehrenberg, 1828, in Arachnida). 



$ (U.S.N.M. No. 108631), Harbel 



Midbody rows of dorsal tubercles 25; lamellae under first toe 8, 

 under fourth toe 11; femoral pores 20 + 19; subcaudals more than 

 half the width of tail. Total length 182 (85 + 97) mm. 



The recently proposed generic name of Aliurus Dunn and Dunn 

 becomes a synonym of Hemiidactylus^ as will be seen from the some- 

 what complicated synonymy given above. I have been unable to 

 examine Slack's rare Handbook and so quote the citation from it as 

 given by Dunn and Dunn. 



AGAMA AGAMA AFRICANA (Hallowell) 



1844. Tropidolepis Africanus Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



1844, p. 171 (Liberia). 



1845. Calotes versicolor Hallowell (not of Daudin), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Philadelphia, 1845, p. 247 (Liberia). 

 1884. Agama savatieri Rochebeune, Faune de la S6n6gambie, Kept, p. 89, pi. 11, 

 figs. 1, 2 (Bathurst, Gambia) (restricted). 



2 $ $, 2 9 9 (U.S.N.M. Nos. 109291-4), BellyeUa 

 5 (U.S.N.M. No. 109580), Bendaja 



Midbody scale rows 60-64; preanal pores 12-14. Larger S 

 measures 112 mm. from snout to anus, tail truncate. 



Heretofore (1936, p. 54) I have used savatieri for agamas of the 

 extreme west, which have fewer midbody scale rows than typical A. 

 a. agama of the Cameroons, but Hallowell's name africana, which was 

 overlooked by Boulenger and all subsequent herpetologists, is un- 

 doubtedly an Agama and has a wide margin of priority over any 

 other name that is applicable. 



LACERTA ECHINATA ECHINATA Cope 



1862. Lacerta (Zootoca) echinata Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1862, p. 189 (West Africa). 



2 (U.S.N.M. No. 109632), Harbel 



