The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . reole to near vein 2. Under-side : both wings sooty brown : primaries with the red patchshowing through as deep orange; secondaries with the costabroadly bright red to beyond its centre, the space between allthe veins streaked with bright red and also in the cell. Exi)anse 50 mm. J/ab. Sierra Leone. Type in my collection ; two specimens. XLVIII.—Description of a npw Chameleon of the Genus^\\(\\r\]i\io\eon from MashonaUind. By G. A. BOULENGER, EhamphoJeon MarshalU. No spine on the inner surface of the digits, but
The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology . reole to near vein 2. Under-side : both wings sooty brown : primaries with the red patchshowing through as deep orange; secondaries with the costabroadly bright red to beyond its centre, the space between allthe veins streaked with bright red and also in the cell. Exi)anse 50 mm. J/ab. Sierra Leone. Type in my collection ; two specimens. XLVIII.—Description of a npw Chameleon of the Genus^\\(\\r\]i\io\eon from MashonaUind. By G. A. BOULENGER, EhamphoJeon MarshalU. No spine on the inner surface of the digits, but each clawwith a strong secondary cusp. Head once and two thirds aslong as broad, very feebly raised behind; no parietal crest;large tubercles on the occipital region ; a tubercular ridge onthe temple, terminating in a subconical bony knob; noprominent supraciliary ridge ; a small, soft, granular rostralappendage in the female *; no gular crest; a series ofenlarged tubercles on each side below the lower jaw, fromthe cliin to the arm. B( dy granular, with scattmed larger. Rhampholeon MarshaUi, uatuiai tubercles on the sides; a series of widely spaced subconicaltubercles along the spine; no ventral crest. Tail aboutthree fifths the length of head and body. The specimen, aspreserved in spirit, is brownish on the body, variegated with * It is probably iiuicli larger in the male. On a 7iew Sihirid Fish from Angola. 347 Mackisli, wliitish on the belly and uiKlcr the limbs; headblackish above and l)eneatli. mm. Total lonjrth 88 Lcn^rth of head 16 Width of lioad 10 l?ody 41 lore limb 2o Hind limb 25 Tail yl A single specimen, a gravid female, was found in theChirinda Forest, Mashonaland, altitude 4500 feet, by]\Ir. Guy H. K. Marshall, and presented by him to theBritish Museum. The discovery of a species of the genus Rhampholeon southof the Zambesi is one of very great interest. The ChiriudaForest, ]\Ir. Marshall informs me, has a tropical insect-faunaquite dif^tinct from that of
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