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the Njoro speciraens. In the specimen from Abyssinia (II. floweri 

 Werner) the scales seem to be rather like those of II. tropidolepis. 



The lamellce under the toes are said to be in H. tropidolepis: 6 

 under the thumb, 8 under the 4 th tinger, änd 8 — 9 under the 4 th toe, 



but only the penultimate lamella is 

 completely divided into a pair, the 

 2 — 4 behind this one are more or 

 less mesially sulcated, but not fully 

 divided; the most basal ones are 

 described as being very narrow. As 

 is shown by the figure 2, quite the 

 same condition is to be found in 

 the Tanga specimen. The toes are, 

 however, so very little dilated that 

 only 2 — 3 distal lamelke have such 

 an appearence as is usually found 

 in the Hemidactylus species. The 

 basal ones are much narrowed and 

 more similar to a laige furrowed 

 scale than to a regulär lamella. 

 Evidently it is this that Mocquard 

 intends to express with bis words: 

 «toutes les autres lamella' [the penultimate, and 2 — 4 behind this one 

 excepted] sont entieres et ä l'exception de celle qui termine la portion 

 elargie des doigts, tres etroites». In II. floweri Werner states «5« 

 Lamellenpaare unter der Innenzehe, 7 unter der Mittelzehe», a difference 

 which is not so great as it will appear at the first glance. The grooves 

 of the lamellse are really so deep that one may speak nearly just as 

 well about several pairs of lamellse as about Single sulcated ones. The 

 somewhat dissimilar number of lamellse in H. floweri and in II. tropidolepis 

 is of no importence, the differences being rather small ; besides the 

 basal lamella? are, as mentioned above, so small and scale-like that 

 they easily might be counted on somewhat dissimilar manner. In the 

 Njoro specimens the lamellse agree very well with those in the specimen 

 from Tanga except that the basal lamella 1 are still narrower in the 

 former. 



The Upper labials are stated to be 10 in Werner*s specimen, the 

 7 th below the centre of the eye, and 8 in Mocquard 's. In the Tanga 



1. Upper lip. 2. Under surface of tail. 



3. Under surface of third toe in the 



Hemidactylus from Tanga. 



4. Under surface of tail in the Hemidactylus 



from Njoro. 



