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AGAMA VAILLANTI Boulenger 



Agama vaillanti Boulenger, 1895, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, vol. 15, p. 12 

 (Ogaden, Somaliland) . — Lonnberg, 1911, Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., 

 vol. 47, pt. 6, p. 11 (Thornbush north of Guaso Nyiro River, K. C). — 

 LovERiDGE, 1920, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 142. (Vol and Mbunyi, 

 K. C). 



2 (U.S.N.M. 49059, 49224) Kenya Colony. (Heller) 1911. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 66901) Mount Nyero, K. C. (Mearns) 1911. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 66927) between Ethiopia and K. C. (Mearns) 1912. 



The series consists of two males and two females; the larger male 

 measures 267 (93 + 174) mm.; unfortunately the tails of both females 

 are missing, but in body length No. 66927 is 100 mm. The ova are 

 small and undeveloped in both these females, of which the Nyiro 

 agama was taken on July 13, 1912. The mid-bodj^ scale-rows of 

 the type numbered 64 as is the case with 66927; the specimen obtained 

 by the Swedish Expedition had 54 rows, thus agreeiug with two of 

 those in the present series; the fourth has 58, so that the range is 

 from 54 to 64. Both males have 13 praeanal pores; one female has 9. 

 These specimens have been compared with M. C. Z. No. 18281 from 

 Voi, which I personally compared with the British museum type in 

 1920. The following additions to the original description may be 

 made: Occipital scale occasionall}^ only slightly larger than the adja- 

 cent scales; the spines are, generally speaking, as large as described, 

 though in Lonnb^rg's young individual and in one of the females 

 of the present series they are less developed; the scales on the vertebral 

 line between the origin of the fore and hind limbs, which, in the type, 

 numbered 27, range from 27 to 35 in the present series; the ventrals 

 are smooth in only one female; in the others they have faintly indi- 

 cated keels with or without a mucro; in no case does the adpressed 

 hind limb reach the eye (as in the type); in the males it reaches to 

 the tympanum; in the females only to the shoulder. In coloring 

 they agree very closely with the type, excepting that the dorsal 

 crossbars tend to form blotches in the males and are scarcely distin- 

 guishable or entirely wanting in the females. 



Ants, beetles, a cricket, and remains of grasshoppers, together with 

 a parasitic nematode {Aylectana sp.) ^^ were present in the stomach of 

 one of the specimens examined. 



AGAMA MOSSAMBICA MOSSAMBICA Peters 



Agama mossamhica Peters, 1854, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 616 (Coastal. 



Province of Mozambique). — Boulenger, 1885, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., vol. 



1, p. 353. 

 Agama mossamhica mossamhica Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., vol. 50, p. 157. 



5 (U.S.N.M. 62845-9) Morogoro, T. T. (Loveridge) 1916. 

 IS Identified by Doctor Sandground. 



