Reptiles and Batrachians from Somaliland. 167 
or eleven upper and nine or ten lower labials; symphysial 
small, much broader than long; no chin-shields. The hind 
limb does not quite reach the elbow of the adpressed fore 
limb. ‘Tail very short, spindle-shaped, covered with small 
granular scales. The coloration is that of an Hublepharis. 
Pale grey-brown or cream-colour above, with or without 
brown dots or vermiculations, and with four undulous brown 
cross-bands on the body, edged with darker; a dark brown 
streak on the loreal region and a dark blotch below the eye ; 
eyelids edged with white; lower parts white. 
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FV Ga ePaPy oi eee Nis weycy ace ce eaees sete 16 
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BOT ERIM Dacrceneres dar even hic ud ka citar 20 
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Mall bes ce evauey We ctabey chelsea) ereon th cvashee tate class 19 
‘'wo specimens. 
6. Agama colonorum, Daud. 
The true A. colonorum had not yet been recorded from 
East Africa. 
7. Agama Phillipsti, sp.n. (PI. VII. fig. 3.) 
Head depressed ; snout as long as the diameter of the orbit ; 
nostril lateral, slightly tubular, on the canthus rostralis. 
Upper head-scales smooth or obtusely keeled ; occipital not 
enlarged; groups of small spinose scales near the ear; latter 
entirely exposed, much larger than the eye-opening. Throat 
much plicate ; no gular pouch. Body much depressed, with 
a fold on each side of the back; scales on vertebral region 
enlarged, polygonal, smooth, minute and granular on the 
sides of the back, larger and keeled on the flanks; ventral 
scales small, smooth. Scales on limbs large and imbricate, 
strongly keeled, nearly as large as caudals. Fourth finger 
slightly longer than third; fourth toe a little longer than 
third, fifth extending beyond first. ‘Tail scarcely compressed, 
covered with strongly keeled mucronate scales, forming rather 
irregular annuli. Male with two rows of large preanal 
“pores.” Back blackish, with small greenish-white spots 
and a broad greenish-white vertebral stripe; head, limbs, and 
tail olive above; throat with a wide-meshed blackish net- 
work ; belly and lower surface of limbs bluish grey ; preanal 
pores orange ; lower surface of tail yellowish. 
