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one of the three specimens collected by Heller is typical sextaeniata 

 both in the character of its subocular as well as in its color pattern, the 

 other two are typical spelcii. They meet again at Takaungu (not 

 Takanugu as printed in the Monograph) which is just north of 

 Mombasa for Boiilenger records one from that locality with the 

 subocular excluded from the lip in a series of 16 specimens of which 

 15 are typical in having the subocular reaching to the lip. North of 

 these points, however, the sextaeniata type prevails all the way to 

 Berbera in Somaliland with an increasing number of light lines on 

 the back reaching a maximum of nine which Boulenger regards as the 

 primitive form. 



Of the 200 specimens which I have collected in Tanganyika Ter- 

 ritory, only 4 had the subocular excluded from the lip, but they were 

 typically speMi in coloration and pattern and in other respects did 

 not differ from a hundred and forty six taken at the same place the 

 same day.^^ 



EREMIAS SMITHII Boulenger 



Eremias brenneri Stejneger (not of Peters), 1893, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 



16, p. 719. 

 Eremias smithii Boulenger, 1895, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 534, pi. 29, 



fig. 4 (Milmil in Hand, Western Somaliland). 



1 (U.S.N.M. 20078) Tana River, K. C. (Chanler) 1892. 



This lizard, measuring 47 mm. from snout to vent (tail lost), is in 

 a very poor state of preservation but fortunately the essential key 

 characters are indisputably clear though injuries in the mid-body 

 region prevent an exact count of the scale rows. The upper head 

 shields are rugose or pitted but not striated; it has more than 68 

 smooth (not keeled) scales across the back and the upper caudal 

 scales are strongly keeled. 



This determination is also more consistent with the known dis- 

 tribution of the two species for smitJiii has already been recorded 

 from the Northern Guaso Nyiro.^^ Eremias hrenneri must be removed 

 from the list of lizards known from Kenya Colony. 



EREMIAS STRIATA (Peters) 



Eremias hrenneri var. striaius Peters, 1874, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 



370 (Brava, Somaliland). 

 Eremias hoehneli Stejneger, 1893, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 16, p. 719 (Tana 



River, Kenya Colony). 

 Eremias striata Boulenger, 1921, Monogr. Lacertidae, vol. 2, p. 251. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 20077) Tana River, K. C. (Chanler) 1892. 



I have not examined this, the monotype on which Eremias hoehneli 

 was based, so follow Boulenger, who, as latest reviewer, considering that 

 it represents an individual anomaly, has referred it to the synonymy 

 of striata. 



'6 See Loveridge, 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pp. 953-954. 



2' Lonnberg, 1911, Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl., vol. 47, p. 15. 



