Vol. XXVI. pp. 145-150 June 30, 1913 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF Till' 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM EASTERN SEDAN. 



BY T. BARBOUR. 



During the past winter (1912-1913) Dr. John C. Phillips of 

 Harvard University conducted an expedition into the Sudanese 

 Province of Sennaar for the purpose of collecting zoological 

 specimens, principally mammals and birds, for the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. He was accompanied by Dr. Glover M. 

 Allen. The small collection of reptiles and amphibians ob- 

 tained is here reported upon. Both Dr. Phillips and Dr. Allen 

 were disappointed in the number of individuals and species 

 obtained in these groups and remark that they were extremely 

 rare. The probable reason for their scarceness was the fact that 

 the region had suffered severely from a prolonged drought and 

 from many brush and grass fires which had evidently seriously 

 impoverished the entire fauna. Only one new species was ob- 

 tained by the expedition but the small amount of material in 

 American museums representing the fauna of this region makes 

 it desirable to place all the specimens and the localities whence 



they came upon record. 



REPTILIA. 



3 W'RIA. 



Tarentola annularis (Geoffroy). 



Three enormous specimen- of this species were procured at Magangani, 

 from the hollow interior of a large baobab tree. 



Lygodactylus picturatus gutturalis (Bocage). 



The expedition has returned with a considerable series of these small 

 Gekkos, which they found in the cracks of the hark of various forest 

 t ree - pecimens were caught at El Mesherat, Abu Zor, and 15 miles 

 above Roseires, on the Blue Nile. These specimens are evidently refer- 

 able to gutturalis, which is distinguished from the true picturatus by 

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