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carrot shaped, depressed above with transverse rows of large, 

 rather flattened, though obtusely keeled conical tubercles in eight 

 longitudinal rows, beneath with imbricate scales in about nine rows, 

 of which the median is transversely enlarged. (See pi. 1.) 



Color in alcohol. — Above, buff with a pinkish tinge, six dark blotches 

 along the vertebral line between occiput and base of tail, a few 

 similar blotches on the back and flanks; below, uniformly white 

 with a tinge of pink. 



Measurements. — Female: Total length, 157 mm.; length of head, 21 

 mm.; width of head, 17 mm.; snout to anus, 76 mm.; width of body, 

 22 mm.; length of tail, 81 mm.; width of tail at base, 18 mm.; length 

 of fore limb, 22 mm.; length of hind Umb, 23 mm. 



HEMIDACTYLUS MACROPHOLIS Boulenger 



Hemidactylus macropholis Boulenger, 1897, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, sec. 2, 

 vol. 17 (37), p. 7, pi. 1, figs. 2 and 2a-c. (Dolo, Somaliland.) 



Male (U.S.N.M. 49373) ? MereUe River, K. C. (Heller) 1911-12. 



This three-quarters grown (53 mm. snout to vent, tail missing) 

 male with 8 praeanal pores has been carefully compared with an 

 exceptionally large male (M. C. Z. 18254) measuring 120 (60 + 80) 

 mm. from Lugh in southern SomaUland and identified by Boulenger. 

 Both agree in possessing 7 lamellae under the median digit; the two 

 male cotypes from Dolo are said to have from 10 to 12. The Kenya 

 gecko has 10 upper and 8 lower labials on either side; the Lugh 



10-9 9 



specimen has ^^.r-r while the cotypes had — • The Kenya gecko has 

 7— b 8 



an angular series of 8 praeanal pores, the one from Lugh only 6, 

 but both within the acknowledged range of variation for the types 

 had from 6 to 10. 



The locaUty is quite in keeping with the known distribution of 

 the species which has already been recorded from the rather arid 

 regions to the north of the northern Guaso Nyiro. 



HEMIDACTYLUS WERNERI WERNERI Tornier 



Hemidactylus bocagei Tornier, 1897, Die Kriechthiere Deutsch-Ost-Afrikas, 

 p. 12. (Dalalani, Tanganyika Territory.) Preoccupied name. 



Hemidactylus werneri Tornier, 1897, Arch. Naturg., vol. 63, pt. 1, p. 63. 



Hemidactylus tornieri Mocquard, 1902, Bull. Mus. Paris, p. 407. 



Hemidactylus squamulatus Loveridge (not of Tornier), 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 939; 1928, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, p. 63. 



Hemidactylus citernii Loveridge (not of Boulenger), 1923, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, p. 939. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 76866-7) Hende, Dodoma District, T. T. (Loveridge), 1923. 



I take this opportimity of clearing up the somewhat involved 

 nomenclature of this species to which I contributed in 1923 by naming 



