Lafastia. 25 



aud with more or less distinct dark vertical bars ou the sides : a white 

 streak from the eye to the shoulder, passing above the tympauum, then 

 broken up into round spots, and disappearing half-way down the body ; 

 a second series of larger round white spots from below the tympanum 

 to a little beyond the shoulder. Lower parts white. 

 Measurements (in millimetres) : 



From end of snout to vent . . . . 4o 

 Length of head . . . . .11 



Width of head 6-5 



Fore limb ....... 15 



Hind liml) 27 



Tail 102 



This lizard is only known to nie from AVeruer's description of three 

 specimens from the Dire- Dana district aud Harrar, in Abyssinia. 



Werner compares it to L. juJtnstouii aud L. burii, but it seems to me, 

 from the description, to be nearer L. hoscie, and I am even doubtful 

 whether it deserves to be specifically separated from it. 



H. LATASTIA LOXGICAUDATA. 



Lacerta longicandata, Eeuss, Mus. Senck. i, p. 29 (1834). 



Laeerta samharica, Blanf. Zool. Abyss, pi. 449, fig. (1870). 



Lacerta sttirti, Blanf. op. cit. p. 452, fig. 



Efemias revoili, Vaill. Miss. Ecvoil Pays (^"omal.. Kept. p. 20, pi. iii, 

 fig. 2 (1882). 



Latastia doriai, Bedriaga. Ann. Mus. Geuova, xx, 1884, p. olo. 



Latastia doriai, var. martensi, Bedriaga, t. c. p. 316. 



Latastia samharica, Bedriaga, t.c. p. 319. 



Latastia longicaudata, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 55 (1887) ; Ann. 

 Mus. Genova (2) xii, 1891, p. 7, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 535, Ann. 

 Mus. Genova (2) xvi, 1896, p. 551, aud xvii, 1896, p. 17: Anders. 

 Zool. Egypt, Kept. p. 143, pi. xix (1898) : Steiud. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, 

 Ixix, 1900, p. 329 ; Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii, p. 144; Toruier, 

 Zool. Jahrb., Syst. xxii, 1905, p. 373 ; 0. Neumanu, t. c. p. 393 : 

 Werner, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cxvi, i, 1907, p. 1844; Pellegr. Bull. Mus. 

 Paris, 1909, p. 413 ; Sternf. in Schubotz, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutseh. Z. 

 Afr. Exped.iv,p. 223 (1912) ; Werner, Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. xxx, 

 1913, p. 42 ; Barbour, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washiugt. xxvi, 1913, p. 146. 



Body feebly depressed. Head feebly depressed, H to If times a.s 

 long as broad, its depth equal to the distance tetween the anterior 

 corner or the centre of the eye aud the tympanum, its length 4 to 4i 

 times in lenath to vent in males, 4 to ik times in females : snout 



