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from the Cape of Good Hope, to which it had probably been imported, as suggested by 
Mr. Boulenger. It is the common chameleon of the Suakin district and also of 
"Wadi Haifa, whence it is occasionally imported into Lower Egypt, which may probably 
account for its presence at Ramleh. It is found in Abyssinia and Eritrea (Ghinda). 
James Burton's specimen, in the British Museum, from Egypt, bears no more special 
indication of the locality whence it came. The species is probably exclusively 
African, and its headquarters appear to be the Abyssinian region and the valley of the 
Upper Nile, extending eastwards to the shores of the Red Sea. 
It bears the same Arabic name as C. vulgaris, but it is known to the Hadendowahs 
of Suakin as Kumtashoak. 
The C. africanus, Laurenti, was founded on fig. 4, pi. 83, of the first vol. of Seba. 
This figure depicts a chameleon, said to have been from Africa, with a tarsal spur and 
with no occipital lobe. These are essentially the chief features of C. basiliscus, Cope. 
I hesitate, however, to adopt the former term in preference to C. basiliscus, regarding 
which there can be no doubt. 
Synopsis of Egyptian Species of Chamaeleon. 
No rostral appendages. 
A. Occipital dermal lobes present. 
Casque moderately elevated posteriorly, occipital dermal lobes reaching its 
apex. No tarsal spur in the males C. vulgaris. 
Casque greatly elevated posteriorly, occipital dermal lobes not reaching its 
apex. A tarsal spur in the males C. calyptratus. 
B. Occipital dermal lobes absent. 
A tarsal spur in the males C. basiliscus. 
