722 AFRICAN REPTILES AND BATKACHIANS STEJNEGER. 



dorsal and lateral .scales very feebly tricarinate; lirst pair of michals 

 entirely smooth; thirty-two scale rows round the middle of the body; 

 the hind limb reaches beyond the elbow of the adpressed fore limb 

 half way to the axilla; scales on the soles sharply keeled, spinose; 

 subdigital lamella? sharply nnicarinate, spinose; tail very slender. 



Color of upper side of back, tail, and limbs brownish black, with large 

 rounded whitish spots, each spot usually coverinj;- the adjoining por- 

 tions of three scales, the point of contact between the three scales in 

 the center; the spots are arranged in pi'etty regular transverse and 

 longitudinal series, about tw<'lve of the former ])etween head and tail, 

 and about ten of the latter, the lower row on each side continent with 

 the whitish color of the under surface; head lighter l)rownish, most of 

 the sutures emphasized by darker, with about five more or less inter- 

 rujited transverse bands of whitish; sujn'alabials as well as sublabials 

 whitish, with broad vertical dark brown bars in continuation of the 

 brown of the top of the head; lower surface whitish, with a few dusky 

 spots on the chin, 



Measirrciiieuts. 



[In niilliiiK'tfrs.l 



Snout to end of inter])ariet;il 11.5 



Snout to ear-opening 13 



Snout to fore 1 inib 21 



Snout to anal ojiening 5() 



Axilla to groin 23 



Fore limb 17 



Hind limb 21 



Tail (tip broken oft') 4s 



Remarls. — Only one specimen of this ■well-marked species was sent 

 home by Mr. Ghanler, for whom it is named. 



Lygosoma kilimeusis Stk.ix. 

 Proc. T'. S. Nat. Mus., xiv (No. 802), 1892, p. 40.'i. 



The description of this novelty was based on the .specimen collected 

 by Dr. Abbott at the foot of Kilima-Njaro (No. 1G74!»). 



Riopa suiidevallii (Smith). 



One specimen from the Tana River by Mr. Clianler (No. LMUOO). 



Ablepharus boutonii pcecilopleiuus (Wiegm.). 



The various subspecies, or forms, by Avhich .1. />(>//fo;*// is represented 

 in various localities seems as yet bnt imitcrfcctly worked out, and the 

 problems concerning its geographical distribution are therefore but 

 imperfectly understood. The material at my command is, however, 

 too scanty to allow me to tak«' the (|u<'stion nj) in Cull, bnt. small as it is, 

 it seems interesting enougli to warrant llie pnltlication of a few obser- 

 vatitms. 



