150 MK. G. A. BOULKXGER ON LIZARDS 



Measurements, in millimetres. 



From end of snout to vent 42 



,, „ foi'e limb „ 16 



Head 10 



Widthofhead 6 



Depth of head 5 



Fore limb '. 16 



Hindlifflb 29 



Foot 16 



Tail 114 



This species is known from two specimens obtained at Berbera, 

 Somaliland, by Mr. E. Lort Phillips. Distinguished from the 

 preceding by the longer foot and by the light streaks being in 

 odd number on the body. 



3. Philochortus neumanni. (PL II. fig. 1.) 



Philochortus neumanni Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 

 1893, p. 30. 



Latastia neumanni Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1895, p. 643, 

 pi. xxxvii. fig. 1; 8teind. Denkschr. Ak. Wien, Ixix. 1901, p. 330. 



Latastia hardeggeri, part., Anders. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1901, ii. 

 p. 145. 



Head and body feebly depressed. Head about 1| times as long 

 as broad, its depth equal to the distance between the centre of 

 the eye and the tympanum, its length 4 to 4| times in length to 

 A'ent ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as postocular part of head, 

 with obtuse cant'hus. Pileus twice as long as broad. Neck as 

 broad as the head or a little narrower. Hind limb reaching the 

 collar or between the collar and the ear; foot If to 1| times as 

 lone as head ; toss slender, compressed. Tail 2| to nearly 3 times 

 as long as head and body. 



Nostril separated from the upper labial and the postnasal l^y a 

 narrow rim*; nasals forming a sutifre behind the rostral, the 

 suture J to I the length of the frontonasal, which is much 

 broader than long and broader than the internarial space; prse- 

 frontals forming a short median suture ; frontal as long as its 

 distance from the end of the snout, If to 2 times as long as 

 broad, angular in front, narrower behind, not grooved ; parietals 

 1^ to If times as long as broad ; interparietal small, usually 

 separated from the occipital by a small shield. 4 supraoculars, 

 first small and usually in contact with the frontal, second and 

 third large and subequ.d, fourth small and sometimes broken up 

 into two or three ; 6 or 7 superciliaries, separated from the supra- 

 oculars by a series of granfiles. Lower eyelid somewhat trans- 

 parent, with feebly enlarged scales in the middle, some of which 

 are deeper than the others. Eostral not entering the nostril ; 

 a single postnasal ; anterior loreal shorter than the second ; 5, ■ 



* Exactb' as in Lacerfa perspiciUuta. 



