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snb-cordiform, notch towards snout, larger than any other head- 

 shields. Parietals narrow, band-like, narrowly in contact behind 

 apex of interparietal. Two supra-oculars, no supra-ciliaries. 

 Five or six upper labials, first largest, third entering the orbit. 

 Eye distinguishable. 



Mental very large, its posterior border corresponding with the 

 suture between rosti'al and first upper labial. 



Scales hexagonal, broader than long, in eighteen longitudinal 

 rows at mid-body, in thirteen rows at base of tail. Anal divided. 

 Tail less than half the length of head and body, ending in obtuse 

 point. 



Body flesh-coloured, with eighteen longitudinal brown stria- 

 tions corresponding with the scale-rows. Snout paler above and 

 beneath, more or less free from mottlings. Tail darker by 

 reason of convergence of thirteen striations, in some specimens 

 almost blue-black. Reproduced tail-tips flesh-coloured or white 

 and extraordinarily like snout. 



Type locality. Site of British camp at Lumbo, which is situated 

 on the mainland three miles from Mosambique Island, P.E.A. 



Measurements of specimens collected : — 



(a) Male. 90" 16 mm. Type in British Museum. 

 (&) Female. 65'25 mm. Type in British Museum, 



4 eggs in ovary, 11. vii. 18. 



A N E L Y T R O P I D ^, 



Feylinia CURRORI (Gray), 



Blgr, Cat. Liz. iii, 1887, p. 431, 

 A single specimen of this aberrant Skink was found in a bottle 

 in a German house at Morogoro, It measured 4 inches 

 (92-10 mm,). 



Cham^leontid^, 



Chameleon gracilis (Hallow). 

 Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1867, p. 448. 



A single male from Longido West (22. ii. 16) measures 7| inches 

 (100-96 mm.). Colour during life: — "Pale green, with dark green 

 saddle-like markings bordered by black spots.'' Immediately after 

 death " pale green became dark, dark green became pale, black 

 spots turned orange." The creature was blind in one eye when 

 found, having sufiered some accident to the eye. 



Chameleon dilepis (Leach). 



Blgr. Cat. Liz. iii. 1887, p. 450. 

 Collected at Yoi (6. v. 16) and Mbunyi (10. v. 16) in B.E.A., 



