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On a new Chameleon from Mashonaland. 



primaries with a large, oblique, oblong, bright red patch at 

 the end of the cell from tlie areole to near vein 2. Under- 

 side : both wings sooty brown : primaries with the red patch 

 showing through as deep orange; secondaries with the costa 

 broadly bright red to beyond its centre, the space between all 

 the veins streaked with bright red and also in the cell. 



Exi)anse 50 mm. 



J/ab. Sierra Leone. 



Type in my collection ; two specimens. 



XLVIII. — Description of a npw Chameleon of the Genus 

 ^\\(\\r\]i\io\eon from MashonaUind. By G. A. BOULENGER, 

 F.R.S. 



EhamphoJeon MarshalU. 



No spine on the inner surface of the digits, but each claw 

 with a strong secondary cusp. Head once and two thirds as 

 long as broad, very feebly raised behind; no parietal crest; 

 large tubercles on the occipital region ; a tubercular ridge on 

 the temple, terminating in a subconical bony knob; no 

 prominent supraciliary ridge ; a small, soft, granular rostral 

 appendage in the female * ; no gular crest ; a series of 

 enlarged tubercles on each side below the lower jaw, from 

 the cliin to the arm. B( dy granular, with scattmed larger 



Rhampholeon MarshaUi, uatuiai 



tubercles on the sides ; a series of widely spaced subconical 

 tubercles along the spine ; no ventral crest. Tail about 

 three fifths the length of head and body. The specimen, as 

 preserved in spirit, is brownish on the body, variegated with 



* It is probably iiuicli larger in the male. 



