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millim. 



Total leiip:th 149 



IIen«l 13 



Width of head 8 



Body 41 



Fori! limb 21 



Iliiid limb 38 



Tibiii 12 



Tail 05 



A single female specimen from the Province Matto Grosso, 

 Brazil, collected by Dr. C. Ternetz. 



LXIII. — Xotice of Reptiles and Batrachians collected in the 

 Eastern Half of Tropical Africa. By Dr. A. GuN'THER, 

 Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum. 



[Plate XXI.] 



The principal object of this paper is to give an account of 

 a small collection of Reptiles made by Mr. G. F. Sc'itt Elliot in 

 the Victoria region at an elevation of less than 6000 feet, and 

 during his journey to and sojourn in Uganda. However, it 

 was found convenient to include in it also the examination 

 of several other small East-African collections received 

 about the same time from other sources. Tiie differences 

 that were at one time supposed to exist between the East 

 and West, the South and North of the lleptilian Fauna 

 of Tropical Africa gradually disappear as we become better 

 acquainted with the local fauna?. 



I. — Keptiles and Batrachians collected by 

 ;Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot. 



Agama Gregorii, Giinth. 



Agnmn Gregorii, Ciiinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 8G. 



Specimens of an Agama collected in Buddu and other j)arts 

 of Uganda, at elevations of from 3800 to 4500 feet, come 

 nearer to this species than to either A. atricollis or A. cyano- 

 gaster^ to which this species is generally closely allied. The 

 ventral scales are larger than in either of those two species, 

 and keeled and acute on the hind margin, with the exception 

 of those in the middle of the abdomen, which are smooth. 

 Sone of these species have the scutes of the tail verticillated. 



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