22 Lacerti(hv. 



Bluish grey in front, pale reddish brown behind ; 3 black streaks 

 along the nape and two on each side of the postocular part of the 

 head and of the neck, the lower passing through the tympanum ; the 

 median nuchal and the two lateral streaks continued on the body, 

 fading to reddish-brown behind. Lower parts white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent .... 52 



„ „ „ fore limb ... 19 



Length of head . . . . . .13 



Width of head 7 



Depth of head - . 4 



Fore limb .16 



Hind liml) 32 



Foot 17 



Tail 105 



This species is known from two male si^ecimens obtained by 

 Mr. G. W. Bury near Berbera, Somaliland (altitude under 100 m.). 

 It conies nearest to L. bosc^i'. 



4. LATASTIA BOSC^. 



Latastia boscai, Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Clenova, xx, 1884, p. 322 ; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 56 (1887), and Ann. Mus. Genova (3) v, 

 1912, p. 330. 



Body rather depressed. Head rather strongly depressed. If to 

 nearly 2 times as long as broad, its depth equal to the distance 

 between the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 4 to 4^ 

 times in length to vent ; snout pointed, as long as postocular part of 

 head, with sharp canthus and vertical, grooved loreal region. Pileus 2 

 to 2.} times as long as broad. Neck as broad as head. Hind limb 

 reaching the axil or the collar ; foot L' times as long as the head; 

 toes slender, compressed. Tail 2 to 2^ times the length of head and 

 body. 



Nostril pierced between 4 shields ; nasals forming a suture behind 

 the rostral, the suture i to | the length of the frontonasal, which is 

 broader than long and broader than the internarial space ; prefrontals 

 forming a median suture ; frontal as long as its distance from the 

 rostral or from the end of the snout, 1^ times as long as bi-oad, 

 rounded in front, much narrower behind, grooved in its anterior half ; 

 parietal H to If times as long as broad ; interparietal 2 to 2^ times 

 as long as broad ; occipital ^ or barely I as long as the interparietal, 

 from which it may be separated by a small shield. 4 supraoculars. 



