or liitle-lcnoivn South-African RejUiles. 139 



Agama planiceps, Peters. 



Several specimens were obtained in Namaqualand by Mr. 

 Peringuey. 



Adult male with the head and tail uniform bright orange 

 and the body and limbs blackish. Half-grown with a yellow 

 vertebral streak, symmetrical yellow spots on the head, and a 

 large orange spot above the axilla. 



Mahuia Peringueyi, sp. n. 



Snout moderate, obtuse. Lower eyelid with an undivided 

 transparent disk. Nostril just above the suture between the 

 rostral and the first labial ; a postnasal ; anterior loreal in 

 contact with the first labial ; supranasals in contact behind 

 the rostral or narrowly separate ; frontonasal broader than 

 long ; preefrontals in contact, forming a short suture ; frontal 

 as long as the frontoparietals and interparietal together, in 

 contact with the second and third supraoculars ; four supra- 

 oculars, second largest ; five supraciliaries ; frontoparietals 

 distinct, smaller than the interparietal ; parietals not touching 

 each other ; a pair of nuchals ; subocular not narrowed infe- 

 riorly, much larger than the labials, between the fourth and 

 fifth. Ear-opening oval, about as large as the transparent pal- 

 pebral disk, with two or three long pointed lobules anteriorly. 

 Dorsal scales strongly tri- or quinquecarinate ; 30 scales round 

 the middle of the body, equal. The adpressed limbs do not 

 meet. Subdigital lamellas smooth. Blackish brown above, 

 with light brown longitudinal streaks corresponding to the 

 series of scales ; head pale brown, with the sutures between 

 the shields black ; ear-lobules white; sides with white spots ; 

 lower surfaces white. 



millim. 



Total lencrth 177 



Head 17 



Width of head 14 



Body 83 



^ Fore limb 22 



Hind limb 36 



Tail (reproduced; 77 



Two specimens ; Namaqualand. 



Very closely allied to M. homalocephala. 



Typhlops Schlegeliij Bianc. 

 The collection made at Delagoa Bay by M. Juste De Coster 



