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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS COLLECTED BY DR. A. D. SMITH. 213 Western Somaliland and the Galla Country, received in May was reported upon in 1895 (see P. Z. S. 1895, p. 530), but some specimens collected on the same route, and which I have only now received, are mentioned in this report. The names of species not included in the first list are marked with an asterisk. REPTILES. CHELONIANS. 1. PELOMEDUSA GALEATA, Schoepff. W . of Juba R., 23.3.95; 24.3.95. LIZARDS. *2. STENODACTYLTJS GUTTATUS, CUV. A single specimen from Lake Rudolf, 22.8.95. It belongs to the stouter form described as S. mauritanicus, differing from Oran specimens merely in the somewhat smaller head. This species was only known from North Africa, from Algeria to Egypt, and North Arabia. 3. PRISTURUS CRUCIEER, Val. Berbera, 4.7.94; Boholgarshan, 13.7.94, 15.7.94. 4. HEMIDACTYLTJS ISOLEPIS, Blgr. A single male specimen. Lake Rudolf, 10.8.95. Differs from the one previously described in the presence of dark brown bars across the back. *5. TARENTOLA EPHIPPIATA, O'Sh. A single young specimen. Sheikh Husein, 14.10.94. 6. AGAMA YAILLANTI, Blgr. A single young specimen. W . of Juba R., 7.3.95. *7. AGAMA SMITHII, sp. n. (Plate VII.) Head convex, slightly longer than broad. Nostril tubular, directed upwards and backwards, in the posterior part of the nasal, on the canthus rostralis. Upper head-scales moderately large and smooth; a slightly elongate scale on the snout; occipital enlarged; sides of head, near the ear, and neck with groups of spines, the longest of which measure two-thirds the diameter of the tympanum; latter entirely exposed, larger than the eye-opening. Throat much plicate; no gular pouch. Body rather depressed; dorsal scales large, imbricate, keeled, and strongly mucronate, the keels converging towards the vertebral line; lateral scales smaller; 33 scales on the vertebral line between the origin of the fore limbs and the origin of the hind limbs; a short nuchal crest; no dorsal crest; ventral scales small, smooth;. 58 scales round the middle of the body. The adpressed hind limb |