1892.] AND BATRACHIANS FROM BARBARY. 11 



The animal burrowed in loose earth with great rapidity, completely 

 disappearing in a remarkably short time, driving the earth backwards 

 with its hind feet, and, as it accumulated behind them, turning and 

 pushing it out of the burrow with its broad hairy snout. 



REPTILIA. 



Order CHELONIA. 



Family I. Testudinid^. 



Genus Testudo, Linnaeus, 



1. Testudo ibera, Pallas ; Boulenger, Trans. Zool. See. London, 

 vol. xiii. pt. iii. 1891, p. 104. 



5, neighbourhood of Algiers ; 2, Duirat, Tunisia. 



Genus Clemmys, "Wagler. 



2. Clemmys leprosa, Schweigger ; Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 106. 



3 2 » Duirat, Tunisia. 



I also obtained a specimen of this species at Biskra, but it escaped. 



Order SQUAMATA. 

 Suborder I. Lacertilia. 



Family I. GECKONiDiE. 

 Genus Hemidactylus, Gray. 



1. Hemidactylus turcicus, Linnseus ; Boulenger, loc. cit. 

 p. 115. 



1 $ , Hammam R'irha, Province of Algiers. 



Genus Tarentola, Gray. 



2. Tarentola mauritanica, Linnaeus ; Boulenger, loc. cit. 

 p. 115. 



1, Biskra ; 3, walls of old tombs outside the Bab Alewa, Tunis ; 

 21, Duirat, Tunisia. 



Among these specimens there are examples of the typical form 

 and of the variety deserti. The specimen from Biskra is an example 

 of the latter, but the Geckos from Tunis belong to the typical form, 

 which also occurs at Duirat, along with the variety, the Saharian 

 and Tell faunae meeting at that locality. 



Family IL Agamid.e. 

 Genus Agama, Daudin. 



3. Agama inermis, Reuss: Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 117. 



2, from between Biskra and Tuggurt ; 1 $ , Tuggurt ; 2 c? & 

 4 ? , Duirat, Tunisia. 



