1896.] BATEAOHIANS COLLECTED BY DB. A. D. SMITH. 213 



Western Soraaliland and the Galla Country, received in May last, 

 was reported upon in 1895 (see P. Z. S. 1895, p. 530), but some 

 specimens collected on the same route, and which I have only now 

 received, are mentioned in this report. The names of species not 

 included in the first list are marked with an asterisk. 



EEPTILES. 

 • • Chelonians. 



1. Pblombdusa gale ATA, Schoepfi. 

 W. of Juba E., 23.3.95 ; 24.3.95. 



LiZAEDS. 



*2. Stbnodacttlus guttatus, Cuv. 



A single specimen from Lake Rudolf, 22.8.95. 



It belongs to the stouter form described as iS. mmmtanieits, 

 differing from Oran specimens merely in the somewhat smaller 

 head. 



This species was only known from North Africa, from Algeria 

 to Egypt, and North Arabia. 



3. Peistueus OEircirEE, Val. 



Berbera, 4.7.94 ; Boholgarshan, 13.7.94, 15.7.94. 



4. Hbmidacttlus isolepis, Blgr. 



A single male specimen. Lake Eudolf, 10.8.95. 

 Differs from the one previously described in the presence of 

 dark brown bars across the back. 



*5. Tabbntola bphippiata, O'Sh. 



A single young specimen. Sheikh Husein, 14.10.94. 



6. Agama taillanti, Blgr. 



A single young specimen. W. of Juba E., 7.3.95. 



*7. Agama smithii, sp. n. (Plate VII.) 



Head convex, slightly longer than broad. Nostril tubular, 

 directed upwards and backwards, in the posterior part of the 

 nasal, on the canthus rostralis. Upper head-scales moderately 

 large and sniooth ; a slightly elongate scale on the snout ; occipital 

 enlarged ; sides of head, near the ear, and neck with groups of 

 spines, the longest of ■n'hich measure two-thirds the diameter of 

 the tympanum ; latter entirely exposed, larger than the eye- 

 opening. Throat much plicate ; no gular pouch. Body rather 

 depressed ; dorsal scales large, imbricate, keeled, and strongly 

 mucronate, the keels converging towards the vertebral line ; 

 lateral scales smaller ; 33 scales on the vertebral line between the 

 origin of the fore limbs and the origin of the hind limbs ; a short 

 nuchal crest ; no dorsal crest ; ventral scales small, smooth ; 58 

 scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb 



