D42 Ml?.. A. LovETiinnE: noti^s otj 



ElASMODAOTYMJS TaiEBRUS l^lgr. 



Blgr. llev. Zool. Soc. Afr. iii. 1913, p. 104. 



Three specimens of this r.are Congo Gecko were ohtaincd at 

 Snna, in Singida., where tliey occur on t]»e steins of the I5u!>;su 

 l^ilms, wliero tliore is abundant cover for ihoni among tho 

 branch -stalks and iibro. 



The Wanyaturu call them Mwenkenyo and say that they in- 

 hal)it houses also, and wh'en they groan someone falls sick. 

 I thought at first they were confusing it with II . mahouia, but 

 later saw E. iriedrus come out of the thatch of the hut 1 was 

 occupying and move down the wall to tho entrance of a termite's 

 nest in the floor, into which it vanished ! 



The lai'gest of tliese males measured 5| inches (G7 + 82) and 

 the others 63 4- 70 and Gl + r. 

 : One specimen had a plant bug in its stomach, 



AoAMIDiE. 



AoAMA nisriDA var. DiSTANTi Blgr. 



Blgr. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) ix. 1902, p. 339. 



Tho Wanyaturu, who have specific names for the various lizards, 

 call this one Lukhumbeli, and the Wnnyiramba naxno is 

 Kimandagala. 



Forty-three specimens were collected from Dodoma, Mbonoa, 

 Suna, Gwao'fl, M tali's, and Mkalama in Tanganyika Territory 

 and Delagoa Jiay in Portuguese East Africa (1911). This active 

 little Agania is essentially an inhabitant 6i sandy thorn-bush 

 country, arid though rocks may be abundant as at Gwao's, it 

 leaves these to A. Uonotus in the main and itself takes to trees if 

 chased. The five P. E. A. specimens were taken as follows: — • 

 Two in sandy thorn-bush, one forty feet up a ti-ee in tho saine 

 locality, one on a fence, and one under a heap of garden rubbish. 



The largest male measui'ed 8,-i inches (93-1-125), and female 

 7^ inches (93-|-91). A young one taken at Delagoa Bay on 

 24.xii. 14, measured just over 2g inches. 



Tho soil of Delagoa J5ay being reddish the lizards harmonized 

 with it most wonderfully, nor did their colour fade on preseivation 

 to any great extent, for nine years afterwards they are chestnut- 

 brown and very diiferent from the sandy-coloured form from 

 Gwao's. Colour notes made at time of capture read : " Body 

 colour brick-rod and brown, a cream-coloured doisal lino extends 

 from tho parietal scalo to beyond the hind limbs where it merges 

 into the creuni shading of tail. Two of tho smaller specimens 

 liad bluish heads and a largo blue gular spot surrounded by longi- 

 tudinally arranged series of smaller spots. Ventral scales also 

 brick-red." 



Gwao's specimens were very different. Male: "Above sandy 

 pr greyish fawn. A sienna-bxown speck about centre of canthus 

 rostralis, two slightly V^shaj^ed sienna- brown lines across ciown 



