A LIST OF THE REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 



OF SOMALILAND AND GALLALAND 



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



At the request of the Marquis G. Doria, I have drawn up a 

 list of all the species of Reptiles and Batrachians on record 

 from North-Eastern Africa south of Abyssinia and Eritrea, north 

 of the Tana River, and East of Lake Rudolf, with an indication 

 of the collections which yielded the specimens. 



The first information on Reptiles from Somaliland is contained 

 in a short note published by Blyth in 1856 (Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XXIV, p. 805). Only three species are mentioned as 

 having been obtained by Speke, viz : Agama ruderata (? ?) , Ti- 

 liqua burloni, Blyth (= Mabuia striata, Ptrs.) , and Psamrnophis 

 sibilans. 



A few new species were also described in miscellaneous con- 

 tributions by Peters in the Monatsberichte of the Berlin Aca- 

 demy, 1869 and 1874, and in the Sitzungsberichte, 1882. 



Within the last fifteen years collections have followed in rapid 

 succession, and have been reported upon in the following papers, 

 numbered in chronological order, the numbers referring also to 

 the eleven columns in the following systematic list. 



1. Vaillant L. Reptiles et Batraciens in G. Révoil, " Faune et Flore 



des Pays Comalis " (Paris, 1882), 25 pp., 3 pis. 



2. Mocquard F. Sur une Collection de Reptiles et de Batraciens rap- 



portés des Pays Comalis et de Zanzibar par M. G. Révoil. Mém. 

 Cent. Soc. Philom. 1888, pp. 109-134, pis. XI and XII. 



3. Boulknger G. A. On some Reptiles collected by Signor L. Bric- 



chetti Robecchi in Somaliland. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova (2) XII, 

 1891, pp. 5-15, pi. I. 



