12 EINAR LÖNNBERG, REPTILES. 



Boulenger vvho kindly replied: »I can only confirm the identification of the little 

 Agama as A. vaillanti.» 



The habits of this Agama, and its occurrence in the bush appears to differ from 

 that of other more rock-loving species. 



The type locality of A. vaillanti is Ogaden, and its southern boundaryline is 

 consequently moved southwards a great deal by this find in full accordance with 

 other discoveries in the country at Guaso Nyiri. 



Agama dorise Blgr. 



Blgr.: Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, Ser. 2. Vol. II, 1885, p. 127. 

 Anderson: Zoolog. Egypt., Vol. I Rept., p. 119. 



Two specimens (male and female) shot at Nairobi Fall near Juja farm where 

 several Ägarnas were seen running on the rocks, and a fine male with yellow head and 

 red throat from Meru borna. 



It is connected with great difficulty to determine the correct name of the mem- 

 bers of this group of Ägarnas. Anuebson (1. c.) unites A. hartinanni Peters and A. 

 dorice Blgr. in which proceeding Boulenger has followed him, but Tornler contra- 

 dicted him. Werner has lately 1 enumerated five points in which there should exist 

 some difference between A. dorice and the type of A. hartmanni. With regard to 

 these points my specimens are evidently members of the race A. dorice, viz. the head 

 is depressed with an elongated median scale on the nose, nasal longish, elliptical with 

 the nostril at the hind end, lateral scales distinctly smaller than the dorsal. In conse- 

 quence of these facts the name dorice has been used above but the question about 

 the identity is left open. 



The distribution of A. dorice is very wide, it has been found as well far south 

 as far north of the localities mentioned above. 



Agama lionotus Blgr. 

 Blgr.: Proc. zool. Soc. 1896, p. 214. 



Two male specimens were shot at Thera north of Guaso Nyiri on the the rocks 

 bordering a dry riverbed 28 /2. A third male specimen was shot on the banks of Guaso 

 Nyiri below Chanler Falls in March 1911. 



The most striking characteristic which has caused the use of the name above 

 is the condition of the dorsal scales. They are just as described by Boulenger »small, 

 broader than long, rounded behind, very feebly and obtusely keeled» in fact they 

 are hardly keeled at all. In the specimen from Guaso Nyiri the scales, especially 

 those on the posterior portion of the back are minutely and bluntly mucronate, but 

 otherwise this specimen resembles those from Thera, and the scales are »hardly 

 keeled» in spite of the »mucro». 



' Sitzber. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. natunr. Kl. ('XVI, 1907. p. 14. 



