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Grasshoppers were the chief article of diet ; there was the one 

 interesting- attempt to take a lizard [Eremias spekii) out of the 

 mouth of its larger relative {G. major) already noted. 



At Morogoro (7.1.17) an 18-inch specimen was eaten by a 

 Sand-Snake (Psammophis sibilans). At the same place (28. ii. 18) 

 a young one was taken from the stomach of a Harrier (Circles 

 macrurus). At Dar-es-Salaam (24. vi. 18) a Kingfisher {Halcyon 

 orientalis) was shot, in whose stomach was found a Gerrhosaitrus 

 measuring 91 mm, in length. 



S c I N c I D iE. 



Mabuia maculilabris (Gray). 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 164. 



Only four specimens of this lizard were taken. One from 

 Mombasa, two from Morogoro, and one from Duthumi ; the 

 latter measured 9| inches (73-178 mm.), whilst the larger Moro- 

 goro specimen measured 9^ inches (89"152 mm.). 



Mabuia brevicollis (Wiegm.). 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 169. 



Six specimens taken at Kagia.do (28. xii. 15) and Longido West 

 (ii. 16). Of these, the Longido specimens were all j'oung ones, 

 which 1 caught one by one as they emerged from their I'efuge in 

 a termite heap. They measured 44 plus 41 mm., 43 plus 43 mm., 

 43 plus 40 mm., 43 plus tail (injui-ed). In these young specimens 

 the markings are very distinct and the side stripes are continued 

 across the back, uniting with their fellows on tne opposite fiauk. 

 In a half-grown specimen from Kagiado measuring 65 plus 71 mm. 

 there is an interruption by an unmarked scale-row along the 

 dorsal median line. In the adult from the same locality the 

 markings have receded to the flanks, where they R.re just distin- 

 guishable. This specimen measures 8| inches (130'83 mm., tip 

 missing), and is an almost uniform dark brown. Both the 

 Kagiado specimens were taken on the same termite heap from 

 whose openings they emerged. The adult is infested with 

 acarines on the ventral scales. 



Mabuia megalura (Ptrs.). 



Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 195. 



A large number were collected at Nairobi, one at Longido 

 West, and sixteen at Lumbo. Of the latter, the largest male 

 measured 8 inches (55-145 mm.) and the largest female just over 

 ]1| inches (65-235 mm.). Colour during life as follows: — 

 •" Above pale bronze. A pair of black zig-zagging lines (caused 

 by borders of scales being black-edged) commence in scapular 

 region and end in pelvic region, though faintly persisting on 

 upper surface of tail in the form of a. double I'ow of black specks. 

 TJ pper labials white ; the white jjersists in the shape of a narrow 



