

A LIST OF THE REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 



COLLECTED BY THE LATE PRINCE EUGENIO RUSPOLI 



IN SOMALILAND AND GALLALAND IN 1893. 



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



The following list refers to the collection made by the un- 

 fortunate Prince Eugenio Ruspoli, killed by an elephant shortly 

 before reaching Lake Stephanie in December 1893. An account 

 of his Expedition has been published in the " Bollettino della 

 Società Geografica Italiana," 1895, fase. II, pp. 5-29, with a 

 map showing the itinerary, to which the reader is referred for 

 the exact positions of the localities recorded below. Thanks to 

 the care of the Prince's companions, Signor Lucca and Dr. Riva, 

 the zoological collections were safely brought home and the 

 Reptiles have been placed in my hands for identification by the 

 President of the Italian Geographical Society, to whom they 

 were entrusted by the father of the unfortunate explorer. 



The herpetological collection, it will be seen, is an important 

 one, and largely supplements those made by Capt. Bottego and 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith in the same district, on which I have 

 reported in these " Annali " in 1895 (Ser. 2, vol. XY, p. 10, 

 pis. I-IV), and in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of 

 London in 1895 (p. 530, pis. XXIX and XXX) and 1896 (p. 212, 

 pis. VII and VIII). 



The herpetological results of the Prince's first Expedition to 

 Somaliland, with Prof. Keller, in 1891, have been published by 

 Prof. Boettger in the Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1893, pp. 113, 

 129, 193. 



