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Habitat.— The Soutli-Western part of tlie Cape Colony. 
This Agama, seems to inhabit, o-enerally speakin^-, undulatini^- sandy 
country It is found among the sand-dunes on the Cape Fhits, and tlie 
junior author lias collected specimens on the grassy slopes of the hills 
behind S(mierset West village. One specimen was captured on the 
roadside. 
The food consists of plants and insects. 
B. Var. BRACHYURA. 
Agama hrachyura, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 350, pi. xxviii, fig. 1 (1885) ; 
and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1905, ii, p. 252. 
This form, originally considered a species, was founded on a single 
specimen in the British Museum, a female without indication of locality 
but forming part of Sir Andrew Smith's South African Collection, The 
British Museum has since received specimens from Deelfontein, Klipfontein 
and Little Namaqualand which agree very closely with the type, and which 
unquestionably pertain to the same form in the nai-rowest sense. It is on 
this small material that the following description is based; but a larger 
series shows the characters to be inadequate for a sharp separation of this 
supposed species from A. hispida, and we have accordingly reduced its rank 
to that of a variety. The following description is taken from the specimens 
in the British Museum : 
Form. — Habit very stout, body much depressed. Head short, convex, 
subcordiforin, its width equal to or greater than its lengtli to occiput; snout 
very short, rounded; can thus rostralis very short; nostril directed outwards 
and upwards, in tlie upper part of a convex but not tubular shitdd, pierced 
on or just below the canthus rostralis ; length of head 3^ to 4 times in 
length to vent. Diameter of ear-opening less (| to f) than cleft of closed 
eye. Limbs moderately elongate ; the hind liml) reaches the shoulder or 
the neck, or merely the ear ; lengtli of hand equal to or greater than depth 
of head ; fingers short, third longest ; tibia as long as or a little longer 
than head or foot; toes short, fourth longer than third, or third and fourtli 
equal, fifth not extending as far as first. Tail cylindrical, moderately or 
