On Reptiles and Batrachians from Somaliland. 165 
breadth 19; nasals, length 14-2, interorbital breadth 5, inter- 
parietal 4-4. x 11; palate length from henselion 17; diastema 
10°3 ; palatine foramina 5°8 ; length of upper molar series 6:6. 
Heb. Ambolimitombo Forest, Central Madagascar. All. 
4500 feet. 
Type collected Jan. 24, 1895. 
Owing to the small number and peculiar character of the 
Madagascar rodents, this addition to their number is of much 
interest. It is unfortunate that the teeth of the only specimen 
are too much worn for me to venture to make any suggestion 
as to the affinities of the genus Hliurus, the only thing that 
is clear being its wide difference from any other Mascarene 
genus. 
XXIV.—On the Reptiles and Batrachians obtained by Mr. E. 
Lort-Phillips in Somaliland. By G. A. BouULENGER, 
E.R.S. 
[Plate VII.] 
THE small but interesting collection of Reptiles and Batra- 
chians presented to the British Museum by Mr. Lort-Phillips 
was formed by him in the Goolis Mountains, 60 miles inland 
of Berbera, and between them and the sea. ‘I'wo of the lizards 
prove to belong to undescribed species, with which I have much 
pleasure in connecting the name of their discoverer. 
REPTILES. 
1. Pristurus crucifer, Val. 
2. Pristurus Phillipsii, sp.n. (Pl. VII. figs. 1, 1 a.) 
Head short and deep; snout obtuse, scarcely longer than 
the diameter of the orbit ; forehead not concave ; ear-opening 
small, oblique. Hind limb reaching the ear, digits and claws 
moderate. Head and body covered with small granules, 
largest on the snout and belly. Rostral large, twice as broad 
as deep, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced in a single 
nasal, which is notched and fissured above; six upper and 
four lower labials; symphysial large, rounded behind ; no 
chin-shields. T'ail compressed, with a low serrated crest 
above. Grey above, with dark brown cross-bars enclosing 
red dots ; these bars interrupted on the vertebral line; sides 
with three or four longitudinal series of oval or round deep 
