10 Ropt. 
REPTILIA AND DATRACHIA. 
frontoparietal shields, the distinct ear, and the well-developed penta- 
dactyle limbs, with the latter in the absence of praefrontal shields, the 
position of the nostril, the undivided palpebral disk, and the absence of a 
collar-fold. 8. ridleyi , n. sp., Boulenger, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 640, figs., 
Iguarasse, Pernambuco. 
Amphisbacnidje. 
Monopeltis boulengeri , Bttg., described and figured by Bcettger, Ber. 
Senck. Ges. 1888, p. 24, pi. i, fig. 1. 
Agamodon compression , n. sp., Mocquard, Mdm. Cent. Soc. Philom. 
p. 121, pi. xi, fig. 2, Somaliland. 
Lacertidas. 
Tachydromus , Daud. : notes on the species, of which 9 are admitted ; 
Gunther, Ann. N. H. (6) i, pp. 166-169. T. sikkimensis, n. sp., id. t. c. 
p. 168, Sikkim. 
Lacerta pater , Lataste : notes on this form and its affinities to L. 
ocellata and L. viridis j J. v. Fischer, Zool. Gart. xxix, p. 265. L. 
viridis , Laur.; bibliographical notes on the occurrence of thegreeu Lizard 
in the Province of Brandenburg ; E. von Martens, SB. nat. Fr. 1888, 
p. 118. L. viridis , var. major , Blgr., p. 157, muralis , Laur, p. 159, and 
dan/ordif Gthr., p. 163 : extensive notes on specimens from Greece and 
Asia Minor ; Bcettger, SB. Ak. Berlin, 1888. 
Opkiops schlueteri , Bttg., is now regarded as merely a variety of 0. 
elegans , M6n. ; Boulenger, Ann. N. H. (6) ii, p. 505. 
Eremias pardalis, D. & B. (= guttulata , Licht.) : notes on the habits ; 
J. v. Fischer, Zool. Gart. xxix, p. 5. E. intermedia , Strauch : notes by 
Bcettger, Zool. Jahrb. iii, p. 908. E. brenchleyi, Gthr. : notes by 
Bcettger, 26.-28. Ber. Offenb. Yer. p. 63, who regards it as probably 
specifically distinct from E. argus, Ptrs. The same opinion is held by 
J. G. Fischer, who also figures a specimen ; JB. Hamb. v, p. 46, pi. iv, 
fig. 9. E. edvoardsii , n. sp., Mocquard, M6m. Cent. Soc. Philom. p. 115, 
pi. xi, fig. 1, Somaliland. 
Scapteira grammica, Licht., p. 912, and scripta , Strauch, p. 914 : notes 
by Bcettger, Zool. Jahrb. iii. 
SciNClDAS. 
Egernia cunninghami , Gray, figured by McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Yict. 
pi. cxli. E. lautu , p. 813, bungana , p. 814, and rugosa i p. 815, n. spp., 
De Yis, P. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2) ii, Queensland. 
Tiliqua nigrolutea, Q. & G., figured by McCoy, op. cit. pi. cxxxi. T. 
longicauda , n. sp., De Yis, t. c. p. 816, Queensland [= Hemisphceriodon 
gerrardii , Gray. — R ec.]. 
Mabuia striata , Ptrs., figured by Fischer, JB. Hamb. v, pi. ii, fig. 4, 
and regarded as possibly identical with M. wahlbergii, Ptrs., p. 13. M. 
agilis , Raddi : notes on specimens from Dominica ; Gunther, Ann. N. 
H. (6) ii, p. 364. M.peringueyi , n. sp., Boulenger, t. c. p. 139, Namaqua- 
land. 
