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Show 1892.] AND BATRACHIANS FROM BARBARY. 11 The animal burrowed in loose earth with great rapidity, completely disappearing in a remarkably short time, driving the earth backwards with its hind feet, and, as it accumulated behind them, turning and pushing it out of the burrow with its broad hairy snout. REPTILIA. Order CHELONIA. Family I. TESTUDINID-E. Genus TESTUDO, Linnaeus. 1. T E S T U D O IBERA, Pallas ; Boulenger, Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. xiii. pt. hi. 1891, p. 104. 5, neighbourhood of Algiers ; 2, Duirat, Tunisia. Genus CLEMMYS, Wagler. 2. CLEMMYS LEPROSA, Schweigger; Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 106. 3 2 ? Duirat, Tunisia. I also obtained a specimen of this species at Biskra, but it escaped. Order SQUAMATA. Suborder I. LACERTILIA. Family I. GECKONID^E. Genus HEMIDACTYLUS, Gray. 1. H E M I D A C T Y L U S TURCICUS, Linnaeus; Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 115. 1 2 > Hammam R'irha, Province of Algiers. Genus TARENTOLA, Gray. 2. TARENTOLA MAURITANICA, Linnaeus; Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 115. 1, Biskra ; 3, walls of old tombs outside the Bab Alewa, Tunis ; 21, Duirat, Tunisia. Among these specimens there are examples of the typical form and of the variety deserti. The specimen from Biskra is an example of the latter, but the Geckos from Tunis belong to the typical form, which also occurs at Duirat, along with the variety, the Saharian and Tell faunae meeting at that locality. Family II. AGAMID.E. Genus A G A M A , Daudin. 3. A G A M A INERMIS, Reuss : Boulenger, loc. cit. p. 117. 2, from between Biskra and Tuggurt ; 1 $, Tuggurt; 2 <S & 4 2 > Duirat, Tunisia. |