REPORT ON CAPT. BOTTEGO S SECOND COLLECTION 



OF REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS FROM SOMALILAND 



BY G. A. BOULENGER, F. R. S. 



(PI. I). 



The collection which has been entrusted to me by the Marquis 

 G. Doria, President of the Italian Geographical Society, consists 

 of 247 specimens referable to 56 species, all of which have 

 been previously described. It has however enabled me to make 

 notes on several species which were little known, and to add 

 some synonymic rectifications. 



The specimens were all collected between Brava and the con- 

 fluence of the Web and Ganana, in Southern Somaliland. 



REPTILIA. 



Elmydosauria. 



1 . Crocodilus niloticus , Laur. — Lugh ; a single half-grown 

 specimen. 



Clielonia. 



2. Cinixys belliana, Gray. — Pozzi Tercale ; a single specimen. 



3. Testudo pardalis, Bell. — Pozzi Ircudt; a single specimen. 



4. Sternothaerus sinuatus, Smith. — Lugh ; a very large, old 

 specimen (carapace 33 centimetres) and two quite young (ca- 

 rapace 4 centim.). 



Suture between the frontal shields much longer than the 

 width of the interorbital space. Cusps in the upperjaw merely 



