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the back; a light streak from the upper lip to the shoulder, 

 interrupted by the lower border of the tympanum, and continued 

 as a series of round spots on the body ; upper surface of tail with 

 dark and light bars ; lower parts orange (green in spirit), the 

 throat yellowish. 



A single male specimen from Entebbe. 



From snout to vent 51 millim. 



Head 14 „ 



Width of head 9 ,, 



From end of snout to fore limb ... 20 ,, 



Forelimb 22 „ 



Hind limb 30 ,, 



This lizard resembles strikingly A. nigropimctatus D. & B., 

 from the East Coast of the Adriatic and the Ionian Islands, differing 

 principally in the scaling of the temple and in the single postnasal 

 shield. 



Leptodira degeni, sp. n. (Text-fig. 97.) 



Rostral small, a little broader than deep, just visible from 

 above ; internasals not or but slightly broader than long, much 

 shorter than the prsefrontals ; frontal once and a half as long as 

 broad, a little longer than its distance from the end of the snout, 

 .shorter than the parietals ; loreal much longer than deep ; one 

 prse- and two postoculars ; temporals 1 +■ 2 ; eight upper labials, 

 fourth and fifth or third, fourth, and fifth entering the eye ; three 



Text-fig. 97. 



Leptodira degeni. 

 a, rostral, 6, upper, and c, side views of liead. 



pairs of chin-shields, the antei^ior longer than broad and in con- 

 tact with five lower labials. ' Scales smooth, in 19 rows. Yentrals 

 170-175; anal entire ; svibcaudals 32-33. Dark brown above, 

 the outer rows of scales lighter, or whitish in the centre ; upper 

 lip and lower parts yellowish white, with a brown line along the 

 middle of the tail. 



Total length 450 millim. ; tail 50. 



Two specimens from Entebbe. 



Distinguished from L. hotamhoeia Laur. by the narrower rostral, 

 the longer loreal, and the absence of black or. the temple. 



