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10. KlxaiiaLpli-oleon. roTbeecliii , sp. n. (PI. 1. fig. 3). 



A single (male) specimen. Wuorandi, near Obbia. 

 Related to R. kerstenii, Peters, and likewise with a remarkably 

 small head and uniformly spinose palms and soles ; but limbs 

 much more slender, tail longer, and supraciliary appendages 

 more developed. Head covered with small granules and enlarged 

 conical bony tubercles, of which two stand above each canthus 

 rostralis ; parietal ridge rather indistinct ; a tubercular ridge 

 intersecting the temple; supraciliary edge strongly projecting 

 and bearing a large scaly dermal lobe directed outwards and 

 forwards, the length of which equals two thirds the diameter 

 of the orbit; chin with five spine-like dermal tubercles, the 

 first in the middle, the others in two pairs directed outwards. 

 Body and tail granular, with numerous, irregularly scattered, 

 conical or sub-conical larger tubercles; no crests. Colour partly 

 yellowish-grey, partly blackish , without any well-defined mark- 

 ings. 



Total length 76 millim. 



Head 11 » 



Width of head 5 » 



Body 36 » 



Fore limb .21 » 



Hind limb 20 » 



Tibia 9 » 



Tail 40 » 



11. JBoodon lineatns, D. & B. 



A single specimen. Route from Obbia to Berbera. 



Two prseoculars. Scales in 29 rows. Ventrals 192 ; subcaudals 

 70 pairs. Uniform brown, with two light lines along each side 

 of the head. 



I regard B. biprmocularis, Gthr., as a synonym of this species, 

 in which the number of rows of scales varies from 25 to 31. 



