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has 17. Four agree with the type in having 6 pairs of lamellae under 

 the median digit; the others have 4 and 7, respectively, and the three 

 young are not considered. 



I have employed the full name of H. werneri werneri on account of 

 E. alluaudi Angel/* which is obviously so closely related as to be no 

 more than a race, if, indeed, further specimens from Bura do not 

 prove the species to have been founded on a solotype which was 

 aberrant in its chin shields, for they alone seem to differentiate it 

 from H. werneri typica. The author compared it with H. tropidolepis 

 and H. squamulatus. 



Genus LYGODACTYLUS Gray 



LYGODACTYLUS FISCHERl Boulenger 



Lygodactylus fischeri Boulenger, 1890, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 80, pi. 8, 

 fig. 1. — Barbour and Loveridge, 1928, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 50 

 p. 143. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 65913) Kasorongai River, K. C. (Mearns) 1911. 



A very small exam^ple without a tail, but when compared with 

 examples oi fischeri from the Usambara Mountains it appears to be 

 specifically identical. 



LYGODACTYLUS GROTEI Sternfeld 



Lygodactylus grotei Sternfield, 1911, Sitzber. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin, p. 245. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 63487) Lake Tanganyika, T. T. (Raven) 1920. 



A well-preserved but tailless specimen, quite typical in its striking 

 coloration as well as in its scalation. 



LYGODACTYLUS PICTURATUS PICTURATUS (Peters) 



Hemidadylus piduratus Peters, 1870, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 115 



(Zanzibar) . 

 Lygodadylus piduratus Boulenger, 1885, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., vol. 1, 



p. 161. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 48581-2) Mtoto Andei, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 

 6 (U.S.N.IM. 49397-402) Kisumu, K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 49811) Maji-ya-Chumvi. K. C. (Heller) 1911. 



2 (U.S.N.M. 49447-8) Kenya Colony. (Heller) 1911. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 63525) Victoria Falls, Zambezi. (Raven) 1920. 



The gular markings on the Maji-ya-chumvi male approach those 

 of Lygodactylus manni, but the head appears to be no shorter than in 

 typical piduratus. The Maji-ya-chumvi and Mtoto Andei geckos 

 are much smaller than topotypic examples from Zanzibar or ihi\ 

 other adults in the above series. The male of the Mtoto Andei 

 pair has, like manni, only 6 praeanal pores, while No. 49811 has 9. 

 The Kisumu series appear to have been attacked by some parasite 



»J Angel, 1923, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, p. 490; 1925, Reptiles et Batraciens, in Voyage do Ch. 

 Alluaud et H. Jeannel en Afriquo Orientale (1911-1912), pp. 8-11, text fig. 1. 



