AGAMA HAETMANNI. 119 
Agama hartmanni, Peters. 
Agama savignyi (non Dum. & Bibr.), Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1862, p. 271. 
Agama hartmanni, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1869, p. 65. 
Agama dorhe, Blgr. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, ii. 1885, p. 127 ; Cat. Liz. B. M. iii. 1887, p. 495 ; 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, xv. (xxxv.) 1895, p. 13; op. cit. xvii. (xxxvii.) 1896, p. 8; 
op. cit. 1897, p. 277; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 533; op. cit. 1896, p. 214; Giinther, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 86. 
Body elongate; head moderate, slightly depressed; nostril tubular, directed 
backwards and outwards, placed below the canthus rostralis; ear larger than the 
eye-opening, exposed. Limbs well developed ; wrist reaches the nostril or may extend 
in advance of the snout; tip of the fourth toe reaches the ear, to between the ear and 
the eye, or may only be slightly in advance of the shoulder. Tibia longer than the 
skull ; third and fourth toes nearly equal, the fourth slightly longer than the third. 
Tail more than twice as long as the distance between the gular fold and the vent, 
broad at the base, laterally compressed behind it. Scales on head smooth, flat ; an 
elongate scale on the snout present, little developed, or absent. 8-13 upper labials ; 
occipital enlarged. The rosettes of spines on the sides of the head and neck but 
little developed, the largest not half the diameter of the ear; nuchal crest slight. 
Scales on body strongly keeled, feebly mucronate, 67 to 88 round the middle of the 
body, and 40 to 50 along the mesial line of the back between the origin of the limbs. 
Ventrals smooth. Caudal scales much larger than the dorsals, arranged more or less 
verticillately and keeled above in the male. 
A single row of 10-12 prseanal pores, not present in the female. No gular pouch, 
but a longitudinal gular fold. 
General colour, in alcohol, yellowish or olive above, spotted irregularly with brown 
and yellowish. A dark line from the lower border of the eye to the ear and another 
from its upper border, both prolonged on to the neck, and occasionally a yellow vertebral 
line along the trunk to the tail. Under surface of head spotted with brown; belly 
reticulated with dusky (female), or the whole under surface from the gular fold to the 
middle of the belly, including the sides of the body, shoulder and fore limb, brilliant 
blue (male). 
It has been recorded from the District of Mount Kenia (Taita and Fuladoya), from 
Western Somaliland (Shaikh Hussein, 5000 ft.), from Ogaden District, Central 
Somaliland, from Northern Abyssinia (Karen, Bogos), and from Dongola on the Nile. 
In 1869, Peters described this agamoid lizard from Dongola as A. hartmanni. As 
the type is in the Berlin Museum, I applied to Dr. Gustav Tornier for some 
information about it, as Peters' description gives no clue to its affinities. I have thus 
again to express my indebtedness to Dr. Tornier for his unstinted assistance, as he 
had specially made for my use two enlarged photographs of the head and two views, the 
size of nature, of the entire lizard. Dr. Tornier mentioned A. bibronii and A. dorice 
