Gans, C., R. F. Laurent and H. Pandit — Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic.

Tervuren, Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, 1965. Large 8vo (26.5 x 17.6 cm). 93 pp.; 14 text figures, ten plates. Original printed wrappers. = A fascinating account of collecting reptiles, and to a lesser extent amphibians, in a country now too dangerous to visit. The systematical part is detailed and well-illustrated. The frogs and turtles are described by Laurent; the lizards y Laurent and Gans; the snakes by Gans and Laurent, the amphisbaenians (Agamon) by Gans and Pandit. Gans wrote the introduction. A clean, near mint copy.