ALLIED TO LACERTA MUEALLS. 57 



Upper caudal scales oblique, strongly keeled, with truncate or very obtusely pointed 

 posterior border; the whorls alternately longer and shorter; 26 to 23 scales in the 

 fourth or filth whorl behind the postanal granules. 



Brown above, sometimes more or less greenish olive in life *, with small black 

 spots irregularly disposed ; sides darker, with 4 or 5 series of white, black-edged 

 ocelli, the upper series very regular and extending from the outer edge of the parietal 

 shield to the base of the tail ; a large black spot on each upper labial ; limbs witli 

 small ocellar spots. Lower jiarts bright yellow, or belly bluish green, in life (whitish 

 or bluish in spirit); belly sometimes witli large black spots, or with small black spots 

 on the sides. Tail with small dark and light spots above, the dark spots sometimes 

 disposed quincuncially. 



The specimen figured on PI. IV. fig. 3 is the type. 



Measurements (in millimetres) :— 



1. 2. a. 4. 



From enil of snout to vent 8.5 70 78 71 



fore liml) .... :52 2'J 2.S 27 



Head 22 1 ]7 17 



Wi.lth oflipa.l ]') 12 10 n 



Depth of head 10 II .S 8 



Fore liml) 2S 2i; 2+ 2.') 



Hind limb 41 37 ;5.') ?,r, 



Foot 21 20 111 i;i 



1. (J, Mt. Eljron. 2. c?. Mail Ravine (type). .3. ? , Kukumeoa. 4. ? , Mt. Uuweiizon. 



Particulars of Specimens examined. 



*1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 



(?. Mail Ravine (type) .... 70 40 21 10 2b H'l-M 2G 



$ . Mt. Ruwen/.ori 71 :?7 27 P -li I,s-l'.i 25 



<?. Mt. Elgon 90 42 21 7 26 17 Z 



8.5 40 2:5 8 26 18-20 2G 



78 as 24 7 2.5 17 22 



., Kakumerra (Nairobi Museum) . 78 37 2:5 8 21 17 22 



G'.» 41 25 9 25 IG 2:1 



? . , 78 4:5 2 8 26 19-18 2;! 



• i'or explanation of numbers, see p. 48. 



IlahUat. East and Central Africa. The type is from the Mau Mountains in British 

 East Africa, where it was discovered by Sir F. ,T. Jackson. The species occurs also 

 in the Kilimanjaro and Usambara districts, on Mount lluwenzori, and at Lake Kivu. 



* " I saw once or twice green-headed and more or less green backed lizards run up on the trunks of bi;; 

 cedar-trees. 1 bad, unfortunately, no means of securing them, but 1 have no doubt that they were Jacksoii'it 

 Lizards" (Lbnnberg, I.e. I'Jll). The variation in colour is therefore exactly as in L. chlorogaster, which may 

 be precisely similar in its markings. 



vol.. .\xi — PART I. No. S. — June, 1916. i 



