Pliilocliortus. 



and with crowded black dots forming a baud from the temple to above 

 the hind limb ; limbs speckled with black. Lower j^arts white. Tail 

 red in the youno-. 



Measurements (in millimetres) : ^ 



From end of snout to vent ..... 42 



fore limb 



Length of head 

 Width of head 

 Depth of head 

 Fore limb 

 Hind limb 

 Foot 

 Tail 

 This species is 



16 



10 



6 



5 



16 



29 



16 



114 



known from two specimens obtained at Berbera, 

 Somaliland, by Mr. E. Lort Phillips. Distinguished from the pre- 

 ceding by the longer foot and by the light streaks being in odd 

 number on the liody. 



3. PHILOCHORTUS NEUMANNI. 



Pliilocliortus ne'wmanni, Matschie, Sitzb. Gres. Nat. Fr. Berl. 1893, 

 p. 30; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1917, p. 150, pi. ii, fig. 1. 



Latasfia neumanni, Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 643, pi. xxxvii, 

 fig. 1 ; Steind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien Ixix, 1901, p. 330. 



Lcdastia hardeggeri, part., Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii, p. 145. 



Head and body feebly depressed. Head about 1| times as long as 

 broad, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of the eye 

 and the tympanum, its length 4 to 4f times in length to vent ; snout 

 obtusely pointed, as long as postocular part of head, with obtuse 

 canthus. Pileus twice as long as broad. Neck as broad as the head 

 or a little narrower. Hind limb reaching the collar or between the 

 collar and the ear ; foot 1| to 1^ times as long as head ; toes slender, 

 compressed. Tail 2^ to nearly 3 times as long as head and body. 



Nostril separated from the upper labial and the postnasal by a 

 narrow rim* ; nasals forming a suture behind the rostral, the suture 

 i to i the length of the frontonasal, which is much broader than long 

 and broader than the internarial space ; prefrontals forming a short 

 median suture ; frontal as long as its distance from the end of the 

 snout, If to 2 times as long as broad, angular in front, narrower 

 behind, not grooved; parietals Ii- to If times as long as broad; 



Exactly as in Lacerta perspiciUata. 



