REPTILES FROM TANGANYIKA TERRITORY, 315 



broken up into a series of dnslies. In the type a the whole of 

 the upper siu'face is spotted with yellow and white (probably 

 breeding marks) ; this is absent in all the others. Under surfaces 

 -china-white except distal portion of tail, which is rufous. 



5 , Upper surfaces all brown and much darker than male ; 

 •only one series of dots on flank. Lower surface all white ; no 

 rufous colour at all. Measurements : — 



Males (a). 



Head 



and b( 



3dy 65 mm. 



Tail 127 mm. 



British Museum. 



(6). 







„ 62 mm. 



,, 128 mm. 



Loveridge Coll. 



(c). 







„ 56 mm. 



„ impaired. 



„ » 



id). 







„ 65 mm. 



SJ 5) 



A. M. N. H. 



(e). 







„ 60 mm. 



„ 116 mm. 



Skull, Loveridge Coll. 



if)- 







„ 65 mm. 



,, impaired. 



Dr. Barbour Coll. 



Female {§). 







„ 52 mm . 



,, 127 mm. 



British Museum. 



Affinities. — Closely allied to N. emini Blgr., from which it 

 •difiers in its keeled scales and difterent markings. 



Locality. — Running on paths at Tindiga, 5 miles south of 

 Kilosa, Morogoro District, T. T. Has since been found at Kilosa 

 also. 



I'yjye- specimens. — 6 a, $ g', donated to the British Museum. 



Bates.— (a, g) 19. iv. 21; (/)20.vi. 21; (6, c, cZ,e) 19. xii.21. 



Notes. — Not uncommon but active, running on paths in hot 

 ■sunshine. 



Female retired into hole, and on being captured was found to 

 have four eggs in ovary measuring 5 mm. in diameter. Stomach 

 contents included a parasitic nematode, a field cricket well 

 •chewed but swallowed whole, limb of Hymenopterous insect, and 

 the lizard's own slous,'hed ventral scutes. 



