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to ear-opening, not quite twice the diameter of the ear-opening ; 

 ear-opening slightly oval, its greatest diameter half that of the eye, 

 upper part of the snout covered with granules larger than those of 

 the occiput, and having no markedly larger tubercles interspersed 

 among them ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial and 

 three other small scales ; rostral rather broader than deep, no median 

 cleft, upper margin scalloped ; ten upper and ten lower labials ; 

 mental large with rounded posterior border, no chin-shields ; throat 

 covered with small granules ; body, limbs, and tail covered with 

 granules and tubercles of unequal sizes, the latter fairly evenly 

 distributed, and becoming more conical and pointed on the hinder 

 part of the body, the limbs and tail ; vertebral line with no tubercles ; 

 belly covered with subquadrangular small smooth scales, juxtaposed 

 but not imbricate ; digits of moderate size, not very unequal in 

 length, the distil joint being dilated into an ovate disc on the upper 

 surface of which are two enlarged scales which protect the pouch 

 into which the very minute claws can be retracted, under surface 

 of the toes with a series of ' transverse lamellae, the number on the 

 median toe of the hind foot being thirteen. 



Colour. Above grey with traces of darker spots, some of the 

 large tubercles being black, traces of transverse bands on the tail, 

 below uniform dirty white. 



Measurements. From snout to vent, 80 mm. ; tail, 60 mm. ; 

 head, 22 mm. ; width of head, 16 mm. ; fore limb, 28 mm. ; hind 

 limb. 33 mm. 



This species of Gecko differs from Elasmoclactylus tuberculosus, 

 Boulenger,* the only species of the genus hitherto described in the 

 slightly different arrangement of the plates round the nostrils, in 

 having dorsal tubercles more widely scattered and more distinct in 

 size, and in their being conical and pointed 011 the posterior part of 

 the body, also in the number of transverse lamellae beneath the toes. 



The type of this species (No. 935 of the Museum register) was 

 obtained in Namaqualand, in the Colony, by Mr. W. C. Scully, and 

 there also exists in the Museum a second specimen, of which, how- 

 ever, the history is unfortunately unknown. 



The genus is new to South Africa, the only other species of the 

 genus, E. tuberculosus above referred to, having been obtained in the 

 Lower Congo district. 



HELEOPHRYNE, nov. gen., Eanidae. 



Pupil vertical. Tongue free rounded behind. Vomerine teeth 

 present. Tympanum not visible. Fingers free. Toes webbed to 



* Proc. Zool. Soc, 1894, p. 727. 



