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Doubtless the whole series came from Kaimosi, one of the few 

 places in East Africa where the species appears to be common. 

 No 49810 is an embryo and is not included in the following remarks. 

 The largest specimen (No. 49031) measures 424 (195 + 229) mm. 

 but is surpassed in body length by another (No. 49029), which is 394 

 (201 + 193) mm.; in both the end of the tail is reproduced. This 

 regeneration occurs in all except two young specimens; the condition 

 is not obvious, but the reproduced portion ma}'^ be known by the 

 discontinuance of the two dorso-caudal dark lines above and 

 the scaling beneath; in original tails there are a number of small 

 scales below, but in reproduced tails their position is taken by single 

 transverse scales similar in appearance to the ventrals of a snake. 

 It is obvious that the original tail is much longer than the head and 

 body being, in fact, 0.61 and 0.62 of the total length in the two 

 perfect specimens, of which the larger measures 240 (92 + 148) mm. 



This species appears to be one of the least variable of the skinks; 

 in every particular, with perhaps the exception of an individual which 

 has an additional (third) ear lobule and some which might be said 

 to have 4 to 5 supraoculars and 4 to 5 supraciliaries, the whole agrees 

 with Boulenger's description based on Bocage's original one, for in 

 1887 the species was unrepresented in the British Museum collection 



Genus SIAPHOS Gray 



SIAPHOS KILIMENSIS (Stejneger) 



Lygosoma kilimensis Stejneger, 1891, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, p. 405 



(Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika Territory). 

 Siaphos kilimensis Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



vol. 50, p. 163 (Uluguru and Usambara Mtns., Tanganyika Territory). 



Type.— (V.S.N. M. 16749) Mt. Kilimanjaro, T. T. (Abbott) 1889. 



This, the type of a well-established species, has not been examined ; 

 the specific name was well chosen, for it has proved to be a mountain 

 loving form ; discussion of variability will be found in the second cita- 

 tion given above. 



Genus ABLEPHARUS Fitzinger 



ABLEPHARUS W AHLBERGU (Smith) 



Cryptoblepharus wahlbergii Smith, 1849, lUustr. Zool. S. Africa, vol. 3, Appendix, 



p. 10 (Natal). 

 Ablepharus ivahlbergii Botjlenger, 1887, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., vol. 3, p. 350 



(Natal; Lake Nyasa; near Lake Tanganyika, etc.). — Angel, 1929 (1928), 



Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 249 (vicinity of Nairobi, K. C). 

 Ablepharus massaiensis Angel, 1924, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, p. 52 (Massai 



Plains near Nairobi, Kenya Colony). 



1 (U.S.N.M. 41090) Mt. Kenya, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 

 9 (U.S.N.M. 41982-5, 42518, 43000, 43074-5, 43078) Nairobi and Nai- 

 robi River, K. C. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 

 1 (U.S.N.M. 42017) Kenya Colony. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1909. 



