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three or four times as large as the body-granules, the largest on the snout, supraorbital 
and temporal regions, but on the latter area small granules are intermixed. The 
tubercles on the body generally and on the limbs are flat, oval, usually smooth, or 
occasionally feebly keeled. Ventral scales moderate, hexagonal, and imbricate. The 
anterior portion of the tail with rows of not very large tubercles. 12 or 13 lamellae on 
the first digit and 14 or 15 on the fourth digit. 
Uniform pale reddish or greyish brown, with a dark narrow band passing through 
the eye, along the neck to near the shoulder, the two streaks meeting or not meeting 
on the neck ; the head with a few large dusky spots, and the body and tail with 
obscure dark transverse markings. Underparts white. 
The following are the measurements of an adult West-African specimen given by 
Mr. Boulenger : — Snout to vent 63 millim., tail 59 millim. 
The chin-shields of the specimen from Durrur are arranged irregularly. On one 
side there are two large shields external to the mental, the one lying in front of the 
other, the first being in contact with the first and part of the second labial, and the 
second solely with the second labial. On the other side the two chin-shields are 
arranged as in the West-African specimens. 
This species was recorded for the first time from East Africa by Mr. Boulenger in 
his second account of the reptiles collected by Dr. Donaldson Smith in his expedition 
to Western Somaliland and the Galla country. It was obtained at Shaikh Hussein, 
West Somaliland, 5000 feet above the sea. My specimen was captured at Durrur, on 
the shore of the lied Sea. 
It ranges across Africa from Senegambia (McCarthy Island) to Western Somaliland. 
Tarentola annularis, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hil. (Plate VIII. fig. 3.) 
Gecko annularis, Is. Geoffr. St.-Hilaire, Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ?1827, p. 130, pi. v. figs. 6&7. 
Gecko savignyi, Aud. Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. i. ? 1829, p. 164, Suppl. pi. i. fig. 1. 
Platydactylus cegyptiacus, Cuv. Reg. An. nouv. ed. ii. 1829, p. 53; Dam. & Bibr. iii. 1833, p. 322; 
Riippell, Mus. Senck. iii. 1845, p. 300; Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, vi. Zool. (1845-50), p. 195, 
pi. ii. fig. 1 ; Gray, Syn. Griffith's An. Kingd. ix. 1831, p. 48; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ak. 1862, 
p. 271 ; Gaseo, Viagg. Egitto, pt. ii. 1876, p. 110. 
Ascalabotes cegyptiacus, Fitz. Syst. Rept. 1843, p. 102. 
Gecko cegyptiacus, Griffith's An. Kingd. ix. 1831, p. 144. 
Tarentola cegyptiaca, Gray, Cat. Liz. B. M. 1845, p. 165 ; Straucb, Mem. Ac. St. Pe"tersb. (vii. se"r.) 
xxxv. no. 2, 1887, p. 24. 
Tarentola annularis, Blgr. Cat. Liz. B. M. i. 1885, p. 197; Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) xii. 1893, p. 204; 
Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 2, xvi. (xxxvi.) 1896, p. 554 ; Boettger, Kat. Rept. Mus. Senck. 
1893, p. 36; Anderson, Herpet. Arabia & Egypt, 1896, p. 99. 
1. A bouse, Cairo. Dr. Walter Innes. 
2. Pyramids of Gizeh. 
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