EAST AFRICAN LIZARDS, 969 



ov yellowish-green. Ten similar dark green bands on tail with 

 yellowish interspaces much mottled with green. The tail, which 

 is generally kept coiled, has a very peculiar appearance, as the 

 bands coincide, giving the appearance of spokes in a wheel. 



This description might be summarised by saying "General 

 colour a rich dark green, with intermediate more or less complete 

 vertical bands of yellow from subocular region to tip of tail." 



Wlien angry G. melleri gapes widely. The interior of the 

 mouth is dark blue-black, corners of mouth blue, inner edges of 

 lips, pink. Two soft lobes of a lung-like appearance on inside of 

 jaws near the front. The dark green bands become almost black, 

 light yellow becomes vivid yellow, and the whole of head and 

 body becomes sprinkled with black blotclies, a particularly large 

 one appearing just above the junction of the forearm. 



The coloration of the Kisanga specimen in life was as follows : — 

 General colour the palest of greens, almost white. A black spot 

 below the occipital flap. Four vertical black bands on body, the 

 first commencing just behind the forearm. Ten similar bands on 

 the tail, each of the fourteen bnnds with a greenish-white spot 

 dorsally. Limbs with three or more bands sometimes very in- 

 distinct. Though kept under observation for three months it 

 never became a rich green ( 5 136 -{-153). 



At Mbala on 26.ii. 23 five eggs measuring 22x17 mm. wei'e 

 found beneath a stone on a path. There may have been more, as 

 they had been disturbed by natives when I found them. The 

 embryos within measured 23 -|- 36 mm, and the hind-limb mea- 

 sured 16 mm. There were eight distinct vertical bars on the body 

 and traces of more than eight on the tail. 



One specimen on being killed was found to have the intestines 

 choked by four calculi composed of insect remains. 



