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in the praeanal region resulting in an eruptive appearance and 

 clumping of the pores; despite this disorganization the series ranges 

 from 7 to 9, except for one which has 11 pores obviously attributable 

 to the diseased condition of the lizard. 



LYGODACTYLUS PICTUKATUS GUTTURALIS (Bocage) 



Hemidactylus guUuralis Bocage, 1873, Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, vol. 4, p. 211. (Bissao 



Portuguese Guinea.) 

 Lygodadylus guUuralis Boulenger, 1885, Cat. Lizard Brit. Mus., vol. 1, p. 161. 



(Bissao cotype.) 

 Lygodadylus picturatus guUuralis Werner, 1907, Akad. Wiss. Wien (math. 



natur.), vol. 116, pt. 1, p. 1833. — Schmidt, 1919, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 



Hist., vol. 39, p. 462. (Garamba, Congo.) 



6 (U.S.N.M. 42511-6) Nimule Uganda. (Sm. Afr. Exped.) 1910. 



No topotypic specimens of gutturalis are available for comparison, 

 but a good series from the Congo, are sim.ilar in coloration and 

 scalation though possibly more robust — perhaps a matter of pres- 

 ervation. The six Nimule geckos range from 27 to 35 mm., with an 

 average of 31 mm.; five are males with a range of praeanal pores of 

 from 7 to 8; upper labials 7 to 8; lower labials 5 to 7. 



TARENTOLA EPHIPPIATA O'Shaughnessy 



Tarentola ephippiata 0'Shatjghne.s.sy, 1875, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, 

 vol. 16, p. 263 (West Africa). — Boulenger, 1885, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., 

 vol. 1, pp. 198, 414, pi. 16, fig. 1.— Anderson, 1898, Zool. Egypt, Rept. 

 and Batr., p. 88, text fig. 



1 (U.S.N.M. 42510} 40 miles n. of Nimule, U. (Heller) 1911. 



This tailless and deviscerated adult with crushed head constitutes 

 the first record for the occurrence of the genus in Uganda. The typo 

 was described from the West Coast but Boulenger has since recorded 

 four examples from. Shaik Hussein and Durro in western Somaliland. 

 The Nimule gecko, measuring 75 mm. from snout to anus, has been 

 compared with M. C. Z. 21948 from Yola, Cameroons and bears out 

 Anderson's remarks as to the slightly longer snouts of East African 

 specimens. This can best be shown in tabular form, thus: 



Nimule Yola 



171771. I 77J771. 



Length of snout from anterior border of eye 9.5 7 



Distance between the eye and ear opening , 7 6.3 



Times 

 included 



1.357 

 1.111 



In both specimens the nostril is between the rostral, first labial, 

 and three nasals, so that the generic description of this character 

 given by Boulenger is wrong for both this and other species, Anderson 

 states that the nostril is between the rostral, first labial, and two 



