802 REPTILES AXD BATBACHTANS FKOM N. XTASALAXD. [June 15, 



beneath ; a series of small blackish, white-edged spots on each side 

 of the head, from the nostril to the ear. 



Total length 658 millim, ; head 20 ; width of head 13; fore 

 limb 7 ; bind limb 15 ; tail 395. 



A single specimen from the Nyika Plateau. 



This new species is closely related to Bocage's Eumecia anchietce 

 from Angola, and represents a further step in the degradational 

 series of the section Riopa. 



Gltpholxcus whytii, sp. n. (Plate XL VI. fig. 2.) 



Head small, scarcely distinct from neck ; eye rather small, 

 Eostral twice as broad as deep, hai-dly visible from above ; inter- 

 nasals a little longer than broad, a little shorter than the praefrontals, 

 narrowed in front ; frontal bell-shaped, once and one third as long 

 as broad, as long as its distance from the end of the snout, shorter 

 than the parietals ; nasal divided ; loreal longer than deep ; prseocular 

 single or divided, not reaching the frontal ; two postoculars ; tem- 

 porals 1+2, anterior narrowly in contact with lower postocular ; 

 eight upper labials, fourth and fifth entering the eye ; two pairs of 

 equal chin-shields, the anterior in contact with four lower labials. 

 Scales in 19 i-ows. Yentrals 163 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 47. 

 Uniform dark olive-grey above, yellowish white beneath and on 

 the outer series of scales. 



Total length 565 millim. ; tail 100. 



A single specimen from Fort Hill. 



Abtheoleptis whytii, sp. n. (Plate XL VI. fig. 3.) 



Tongue with a conical median papilla. Head moderate, broader 

 than long ; snout rounded, as long as the eye, with obtuse canthus ; 

 nostril a little nearer the end of the snout than the eye ; inter- 

 orbital space broader than the upper eyelid ; tympanum very 

 distinct, two thirds the diameter of the eye. First and second 

 fingers equal, more than half as long as third ;'^ toes free ; tips of 

 fingers and toes slightly swollen ; subarticular tubercles well 

 developed; a very large, compressed, sharp-edged, crescentic inner 

 metatarsal tubercle. The tibio-tarsal articulation reaches the 

 tympanum or the posterior border of the eye. Skin smooth, granu- 

 late on the flanks and belly. G-rey or pale brown above, with or 

 without a dark, festooned median dorsal band or a fine light vertebral 

 line ; a blackish-brown band on the canthus rostralis and temple ; 

 lips with small black and white spots ; a small dark brown lumbar 

 spot may be present; limbs with, or without rather indistinct dark 

 cross-bars ; lower parts uniform white. 



From snout to vent 40 millim. 



Five specimens : Kondowe to Karonga, Nyika Plateau, Masuku 

 Mts. 



