DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF GECKO FROM 

 TANGANYIKA TERRITORY, AFRICA 



By Arthue Loveeidge 

 Member of the recent Smithgonian-Chrysler African Expedition 



Among the reptiles collected in the course of field work during 

 the Smithsonian-Chrysler Expedition to Tanganyika Territory, 

 Africa, in 1926, is one specimen of a gecko which differs conspicu- 

 ously from the species hitherto known. It may be named and 

 described as: 



LTGODACTYLUS MANNI, new species 



Type. — Male, No. Y2760, U.S.N.M., collected at Saranda, Dodoma 

 District, Tanganyika Territory, Africa, July 15, 1926, by Arthur 

 Loveridge. 



DiagTWsis. — Differs from all other East African members of the 

 genus by the striking gular markings of the male. Its transversely 

 enlarged subcaudal scales cause it to fall into the picturahis-gutturalis 

 group, from the members of which it differs in its much shorter, 

 blunter head. 



Description. — Head short, blunt, longer than broad, snout a little 

 less than twice the diameter of the eye, longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear opening; ear opening very small, ver- 

 tically oval; rostral broad but 'rithout a median groove; nostril 

 pierced above and behind the suture behind rostral and first labial, 

 separated from the rostral by a narrow rim situated between a large 

 swollen supranasal, a postnasal and the first labial; two small scales 

 separate the enlarged supranasals behind the rostral; seven upper 

 labials, seven lower labials ; mental large, subtriangular, not extend- 

 ing back bejT'ond the posterior borders of the first pair of infrala- 

 bials, and bounded posteriorly by three granular scales. Scales of 

 upper surface small, granular, larger on the snout ; abdominal scales 

 large, imbricate, smooth. Digits unequal, fourth longest, second and 

 fifth about equal, four lamellae under median digit. Preanal pores 

 very indistinct, apparently six. Tail tapering, rounded above, flat- 

 tened below, covered with juxtaposed scales above, below by a median 

 series of transversely enlarged subcaudals except at the very tip. 



No. 2720.— PROCEED! NGS U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, VOL. 72, ART. 24. 

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