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Brava, East Africa. 



4. Latastia spinalis *. 

 Lacerta spinalis, Peters, Mon. Bed. Ac. 1874, p. 369, pi. — . fig. 2. 



Head small ; snout short, obtuse. A single postnasal ; frontal 

 narrowed posteriorly, feebly grooved ; two large supraoculars, pre- 

 ceded and followed b)' a few small shields, and separated from the 

 supraciliaries by a series of granules ; interparietal very narrow t ; 

 a small occipital ; a band-like shield usually borders the parietal 

 externally, and another, curved one, the ear supero-anteriorly ; 

 temporal scales granular, smooth ; no auricular denticulation ; sub- 

 ocular bordering the liji, between the fourth and fifth or fifth and 

 sixth upper labials, (iular scales moderate, gradually increasing in 

 size towards the collar, which is angular, with toothed edge, and 

 composed of 8 to 10 plates ; the three anterior pairs of cbin- 

 shields in contact. Nuchal scales granular, convex ; four longitu- 

 dinal series of large, irregular, imbricate, smooth, or fecblj- keeled 

 scales along the middle of the back ; lateral scales small, smooth or 

 feebly keeled, imbricate ; 34 to 42 scales across the middle of the 

 body. Ventral plates in 6 straight longitudinal and 27 to 32 trans- 

 verse series ; the plates of the median and outer series narrower 

 than the others, but much broader than long ; no small pectoral 

 scales. Prseanal plates small and irregular, or two median enlarged. 

 Femoral pores 12 to 15. Tail twice to twice and a half as long 

 as head and body; upper caudal scales strongly keeled, basal 

 subcaudals smooth. The type specimen is brown above, with 

 six lighter longitudinal streaks ; lower surfaces and upper lip 

 white. The specimen in the Collection is pale brown above, 

 with a lateral series of black spots. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 168 From end of snout 



Head 12 to vent 55 



Width of head 7 Fore limb 19 



From end of snout Hind limb 34 



to fore limb 19 Tail 113 



Abyssinia. 



a. S- Hugdeia Sogheira, Adal. Marquis G. Doria [P.]. 



* This species is described from the specimen in the Collection, as well as from 

 the type (7(i33) and a male from Adal Country (10270) in the Berlin Museum, 

 and a female specimen in Dr. v. Bedriaga's collection. 



t Its absence in the type specimen is an individual anomaly. 



