NOXJCS OX EAST AFRICAN LIZARDS. 935 



-lli. Noles on Ensfc African Lizards collected 1920-1923, 

 with ilio Description of two, new llaces oL' A<jama 

 lionoius Blgr. 13y AitTiiuu Loveiudgb, F.E.S., C.M.Z.S. 



[Roceived October 3, 1923 : Read November 6, 1923.] 



Tlie following notes are based on a collection of lizards and 

 cliameleons collected by the writer during six inoiiths in Kenya 

 Colony (formerly British East Africa) and two and a half years 

 in Tanganyika Territory (late German East Africa). 



llepresentatives of all the famihes of East African Lizards were 

 again collected (with the exception of Anelytropidte), more than 

 half the genera and a little more than one-third of the species. 

 The numbers are disti'ibuted as follows : — 



No. of 

 Famili/. Genera, Species. Specimens. 



Geckonidje 4 11 92 



Agamidae 1 5 128 



Zonuridre 1 1 2 



Varanida) 1 2 7 ' 



Amphisbajnidte 11 2 



Lacertidaj 5 7 249 



Gerrhosaurida; 1 • 2 4 



Scincidie 4 12 119 



Chamajleontidaj 1 7 42 



Total... G45 : 



Of the forty-eight species, however,' no less than seventeen 

 were collected by tho writer for the first time and of these two 

 Avere undescribed. Particular attention is directed to such 

 I'arities as Pachydactylus bouleoigeri, Geocalamus modesius, Algi- 

 roides alleni, Mahuia irregularis, Mahuia obsti, and Melanoseps' 

 ater var. longicauda. Several of these species have only been 

 known from the types hitherto. 



Taking them from east to west and south to north, the prin- 

 cipal localities mentioned in the following pages are : — 



Kenya Colony. 



Kilindini, Mombasa Is., Frere Town, Voi, Nairobi, Eldoret, 

 Kisumu, Karungu Bay. 



Tanganyika Territory. 



])ar es Salaam District . — Dar es Salaam. 

 Morogoro District. — Bngilo, Mt. Kirui, Mkindo River,. 

 , Wanii River, Mkata River, Ilonga, Kimamba Station,' 

 Tindiga, Kipera, Kilosa, Kidai, Kidete, Kisanga, Mbala, , 



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