REPTILES FROM SOMALILAND 7 



the hinder part of the head, no fringe above the ear; a few 

 conical, erect scales below and behind the ear; ear-opening 

 quite as large as the eye-opening. No gular pouch. Body short, 

 much depressed, covered above with small, irregular, imbricate, 

 keeled scales, largest in the middle, and intermixed with enlarged, 

 strongly keeled or conical ones; limbs with uniform, strongly 

 keeled scales; gular and ventral scales smooth or indistinctly 

 keeled. Limbs moderate; the adpressed hind limb reaches 

 between the ear and the eye; tibia as long as the skull; third 

 and fourth fingers equal; fourth toe slightly longer than third, 

 fifth not extending quite so far as first. Tail cylindrical, slender, 

 nearly as long as head and body. A double row of anal pores. 

 Greyish brown above, with traces of darker, light-edged spots; 

 throat with bluish-grey longitudinal lines. 

 The single specimen is a male. 



Total length 129 millim. 



Head ' 19 » 



Width of head 18 » 



Body 48 



Fore limb 40 » 



Hind limb 51 » 



Tail 62 .. 



This new species comes nearest to A. pallida^ Reuss, from 

 which it differs chiefly in the very slight difference in length 

 between the third and fourth toes, the larger ear- opening and 

 the absence of a fringe of scales above it, and the more strongly 

 keeled dorsal scales. 



5. Xja.ta.stia. lon.g'icarKiata , Reuss. 



Three specimens. Route from Obbia to Berbera. 



These specimens are young, and agree in colour with Ere- 

 mias revoili as figured by Vaillant. They have 55 scales across 

 the middle of the body and 12 to 14 femoral pores on each side. 



