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is the light, transverse, yellowish lines on the pelvic region as well as 

 on the base of the tail; while the back is brown, shading to olive, 

 with a small amount of yellow posteriorly, the latter color predomi- 

 nates on the tail, which may be said to be yellowish w-ith irregular 

 bands of brown, these bands varying much in distinctness. 



The eggs in the Fort Hall female measure approximately 22 by 1 2 

 mm. This lizard has lost the right forearm at the shoulder but the 

 stump is completely healed over and notwithstanding tliis mutilation 

 the lizard has attained a large size — snout to vent 120 mm. The 

 stomachs of two lizards were examined; they contained: (1) Ants 

 and their imagines, a beetle, and a caterpillar; (2) ants and the flower 

 heads of grasses. In the stomach of a Loita Plains specimen in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology parasitic nematodes were found. 

 These were identified as Physaloptera species and Thelandros species 

 by Dr. Emmett W. Price of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, to w^hom my thanks are due. 

 Specific determination was out of the question, as only a single speci- 

 men (U.S.N.M. 8074 and 8075) of each genus was present. 



I am indebted to Dr. J. Bequaert for identifying a tick found on 

 one of the Mtoto Andei specimens as Amhlyomma nuttallii Don. 



AGAM.4 AGAMA DODOMAE (Loveridgc) 



Agama lionotus var. dodomae Loveridge, 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 944 

 (Dodoma, Tanganyika Territory). 



1 (U.S.N.M. 62851) Kongwa, T. T. (Loveridge) 1917. 



It is purely on geographical grounds that I refer this very young 

 agama to the Dodoma race, as it is not sufficiently developed for en's 

 to be sure of its appearance when adult. It only measures 109 

 (42 + 67) mm., and the sex is uncertain. Kongwa, w^here I collected 

 it, lies about 40 miles northeast of Dodoma, and the topography and 

 flora are essentially similar. 



AGAMA HARTMANNI Peters 



Agama hartmanni Peters, 1869, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 65 (Don- 

 gola). — BouLENGER, 1885, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 340. — Anderson, 

 1898, Zool. Egypt, Rept. and Batr., vol. 1, p. 119. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 61213-4) Rejaf, Sudan. (Raven) 1920. 



Both are females wdth broken tails; one measuring 90 mm. in length 

 from snout to vent is distended wdth eggs; the species, to judge from 

 the stomach contents of one of these specimens, lives chiefly upon 

 ants and beetles. Though I have no material for comparison, these 

 two agamas agree so well wdth the original description that I entertain 

 no doubts as to their correct determination. 



