22 Lticertidic. 



Bluish grey in front, pale reddish lirowii 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 rent . . . .52 



fore limit ... 19 



Length of head . . . . .13 



Width of head 



4 



.16 



Dejith of head 

 Fore liml) 

 Hind linili 

 Foot 

 Tail 



17 



105 



This species is known from two male specimens obtained by 

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



It comes nearest to L. hosnr. 



4. LATASTIA BOSC^. 



Lafasfia boscai, Bedriaga, Ann. Mus. Clenova, .\x, 1884, p. 322 ; 

 Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii. p. 50 (1887), and Ann. Mus. Genova (3) v. 

 1912, p^ 330. 



Body rather depressed. Head rather strongly depressed, Iv 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 4i 

 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 2J- times as long as broad. Neck as broad as head. Hind liml) 

 reaching the axil or the collar ; foot 1-!, times as long as the head; 

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

 body. 



Nostril pierced between 4 shields ; nasals forming a suture behind 

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

 l)roader than long and broader than the iuternarial space ; prefrontals 

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

 rostral or from the end of the snout, 14 times as long as broad, 

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

 parietal H to 1-|- times as long as broad ; interparietal 2 to 2^ times 

 as long as broad ; occipital ^ or barely .V as long as the interparietal, 

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



