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body metallic purplisli-piiik ; fove-liuibs from elbows to finger- 

 tips and whole of hind-limbs and tiiil a very I'ich metallic blue, 

 brighter below than above. The females are njnch njore like 

 those of the Dodoma form, but are readily distinguishable by the 

 vermiculations on the back." 



The greatest body-length attained l)y mnles in tliis series was 

 130 mm. in two specimens, both of which had rogener.'ited tails; 

 of the perfect males the largest was 131 inches (127 + 207). None 

 of the females collected were very large. 



Females collected at Shanwa on 19. x, 22 had eggs developing 

 in the ovaries: (a) six meusuring 20x10 mm., (6) eight eggs 

 17 X 10 mm., (c) eight enlai-ged but still round 0x6 mm. 



lam almost inclined to say that this Agama is primarily a 

 vegetable feeder, and only secondarily insectivorous. Many of 

 the stomachs had nothing but vegetable matter in thom, otheis 

 a mixture of vegetable and insect food ; of insects, ants appeared 

 to be the favourite fare, but it must bo remembered that soft- 

 bodied insects such as diptera are so masticated that they are 

 very difficult to find ; a few beetle elytra were found and one bug, 

 I watched (both with and without glasses) a pair of these lizards 

 on several occasions come down from their rock and bite oil" the 

 sprouting gi-een grass at its base and also the leaves of a small 

 slirub. The female always appeared bolder than the male, and 

 would venture away from the rock in pursuit of insects. 



A Hawk (Meliera.v poliopterus Cab.), shot between Mwadira 

 and Shanwa on 19.x, 22, was found to have dined off one of 

 these lizards, and a day or two later I saw a female Hawk of the 

 same species feeding its young in the eyrie with a full-grown 

 agama. Indeed, at Shanwa, unless the Kites eat these lizards 

 which simply swarm, there appears to be very little other food 

 for the large number of Kites which are ever circling about the 

 rocks. 



The Agamas are also heavily infested with the nematodes 

 Stronyyluris hrevicaudata Miill., Thdandros sp., and 8tron(jy- 

 luris, sp. nov. 



AdAMA FLAvioAUDA Werner. 



, Worn. Zool. Anz. XX. 1897, p. 204. 



During November 1920 at Eldoret, Kenya Colony, I saw wh.at 

 I am almost certain were agamas of this species on a heap of 

 stones. They were quite numerous, but I failed to capture any. 



Agama atricollis Smith. 



Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. 1885, p. 358. 



Upongo in Luguo (Kavirondo). 



Five males from Kilosa, Sanga, Kisumu, and Nairobi. This 

 lizard is thoroughly arboreal, most of my specimens being ca|)tured 

 on tree-trunks. 



