REPTILES FROM SOMALI- AND GALLA -LAND 7 



in the middle, 14 to 17 on each side. Tail swollen, depressed, 

 above with transverse rows of large conical tubercles, beneath 

 with small, imbricate scales; the reproduced tail flat and leaf- 

 like, without tubercles. Grey-brown above, spotted or marbled 

 with black, or with wavy black cross-bars; some of the dorsal 

 tubercles white ; a dark streak on each side of the head, pas- 

 sing through the eye; intact tail with black and white annuii. 



Total length 88 millim. 



Head 16 



Width of head . . 11 



Body 34 



Fore limb 16 



Hind limb 20 



Tail 38 



12 specimens, from between Lugh and Barderà, Magala Um- 

 berto I, and Dolo. 



6. Hemidactylus macropholis, sp. n. — Head oviform; snout a 

 little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, once and one third the diameter of the orbit ; forehead 

 concave; ear-opening elliptical, oblique, two thirds the diameter 

 of the eye. Body stout ; limbs short. Digits moderately dilated, 

 free , inner well developed ; 7 or 8 lamellae under the inner 

 digits, 10 to 12 under the median. Head covered with small 

 granules, largest on the snout, intermixed with small tubercles; 

 rostral tetragonal, a little broader than deep, cleft above ; nostril 

 pierced between the rostral and three or four small scales ; 9 

 upper and 8 lower labials ; symphysial triangular , more than 

 twice as long as the adjacent labials ; four chin-shields , inner 

 largest and in contact behind the symphysial. Upper parts with 

 minute granules and 12 or 14 longitudinal series of very large, 

 trihedral , strongly keeled tubercles , which are mostly longer 

 than broad; ventral scales small, smooth, roundish, imbricate. 

 Male with an angular series of 8 to 10 praeanal pores. Tail 

 rounded, feebly depressed, above with transverse rows of large 

 keeled tubercles, beneath with a series of transverse shields. 

 Uniform sandy grey above, white beneath. 



