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MR. A. LOVERIDGE OX 



has 9 upper and 8 lower labials. It has three scales between 

 naso-rostrals, and the dorsal scales are distinctly keeled ; in both 

 of which points it differs from the other specimen, which has two 

 scales between the naso-rostrals, and the scales unkeeled on the 

 dorsal suiface of tail. 



Colour-notes in life are: ''Dark green colour, finely freckled 

 with red on back and base of tail." 



It has been previously reported from Nossi Be, Johanna, 

 Farquhar Is., Zanzibar, Comoro Is., Madagascar, but not from 

 the mainland of East Africa. 



Elasmodactylus triedrus (Blgr.). 



Blgr. Rev. Zool. Afr. iii. 1913, p. 104, pi. v. fig. 2. 



Two specimens of this rare Gecko were taken — a njale from 

 Kongwa (21.iv. 17), measures 5| inches (70'67 mm.); and a 

 female whose locality is somewhat uncertain, though 1 believe it 

 was taken in the neighbourhood of Morogoro, measures 4| inches 

 (57-57 mm.). 



A G A M I D iE. 



Agama colonorum (Gray). 



Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. 1885, p. 356. 



Thirty-four specimens were obtained at Thika, Gon3^a, Kongwa, 

 Morogoro, Mkuyuni, Duthumi, and Lumbo. The largest Morogoro 

 male measured 9^ inches (1 21"1 1 1 mm., tip of tail missing), largest 

 Morogoro female 1 1 inches (lOo'l 75 mm.), seventeen specimens were 

 collected at Morogoro. Of fourteen specimens collected at Lumbo 

 the largest male measured 13 inches (1 16 213 mm,), and female 

 12 inches (104*204 mm.). 



Coloration was very variable ; the following note was made on 

 a Lumbo male : — " Dirty cream or pale grey, with dark brown 

 vermiculations. Dorsal crest pale blue, particulai-ly bright on 

 neck. Head dark browai above, vermiculated with same on sides ; 

 indistinct red stripe from eye to eye ; irregular line of a fine 

 brick-red colour originates behind ear and is lost in a lai-ge patch 

 of same colour just above fore-leg. Chin vermiculated with rich 

 blue, converging to a blue patch on throat. Belly and under- 

 surface of tail dirty white." 



A female was killed at Morogoro on 14 ii, 17 with 12 eggs in 

 ovary measuring 15x10 mm. Another was killed on l.iv. 18 

 with 10 eggs 18x10 mm. 



Ants of several species, including the fierce little cock-tail 

 species, beetles, large cricket, and millipedes were found in 

 stomachs. 



Physaloptera was taken in the stomach of this species. 



This species is very arboreal ; if found upon the ground it is 

 usually not far from a tree, to which it flies for refuge. 



A very large specimen was found partly digested in the 

 stomach of a Hissing Sand-Snake (Psammophis sibilans) at Lumbo 

 (x. 1918). 



