EAST AFRICAN LIZARDS. 949 



A M P II I S B /t N I D jE. 



Geocalamus modestus Gthr. 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. ii. 1885, p. 453. 



Two specimens Avhich are, I believe, the only ones recorded 

 since Giinther described the species over fort}'- years ago. 



The type locality is Mjiwapwa, and my collector obtained a male 

 from Ikikuyu, some 80 miles south of M2:)wapwa, in sandy soil. 

 It measures 10| inches (240 + 34); 241 annuli on body ; a mid-body 

 annular ring consists of 36 segments and a caudal ring of 31. 

 The first labial on the riglit side appears to be incompletely 

 separated from the nasal. There are only three i:)ra3-anal pores, 

 one being obviously missing. The colouring above is plumbeous, 

 not brown, below pure white, somewhat transparent in life. 



The other specimen is a young one, and was found in the 

 stomach of a Banded Mungoose (31. imcngo colonus) at Usshora, 

 Mkalama Dist., 31 . x. 2 1 . These records are extremely interesting, 

 extending as they do its known range to the west and south. 



Geocalamus AcfJTuS Sternf. 



Sternf. Ergebn. Deutsch.-Zentr.-Afr. Exp. 191 2> iv. 2, p. 209. 



There is, in the British Museum, an Amphisbrenid which I do 

 not hesitate to refer to this species. Collected at Samburu (near 

 Yoi) Kenya Colony about 1897 by Betton. It has 209 annuli on 

 body and 22 on tail. It measures 230 and 29 mm. 



Laoertid^. 



NUCRAS EMINI Blgr. 



Blgr. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xix. 1907, p. 488. 



The Wanyaturu know this lizard by the name of Kungulupe. 

 It is comparatively common in the dusty, sandy fields of stubblo 

 which cover large areas in their district. 



One which was captured alive at Mpnnira had bolted down a 

 hole, obviously its own to judge by the tracks leading to it. The 

 hole was occupied in one portion by a giant cricket which had 

 probably excavated the burrow. 



The Shanwa female darted across the path and into a very small 

 clump of grass surrounding a sprouting acacia. With the object 

 of driving it out I set lire to the grass, which flared up and was 

 burnt in about two minutes. The lizard made no attempt to 

 escape and was picked up dead. 



Forty-live specimens of a Nucras were collected at localities 

 Intermediate between the type locality of N. kilosce (TCilosa, 

 Morogoro Dist.) and N'. emini (south shoie of Lalte Victoria), viz. 

 Ikikuyu, Mpanira-kwa-Sagoi. Kidenge, Suna, Pooma, Zinzerigi, 

 Mtali's, Shanwa, Nyambita, Tambali, and Izikisia, representing 

 no fewer than four districts. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1923, No. LXII. 62 



