150 REPTILES. 



** Vent granular in front. The plates under the middle of the toes 



very narrow. Africa. 



The Lined Diplodactyle. Diplodactylus lineatus. 



Brown ; hack and tail with 2 narrow dark hrowu streaks on 

 each side ; sides ohscurely brown-lined ; tail suhcylindrical, fusi- 

 form ; lower labials 7-1-7, gradually smaller ; the lower rostral 

 triangular, with 2 or 4 larger 6-sided chin-shields in front. 



a. In spirits. Cape of Good Hope. 



b. In spirits. Cape of Good Hope. Presented by the Earl of 



Derby. 



*** Vent with a large naked heart-shaped plate in front. 



Gerrhopygus. 



The Naked Diplodactyle. Diplodactylus Gerrhopygus, 

 Weigm. Acad. N. Cur. xvii. 242. Bum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 399. 



Scales small, granular ; grey, with blackish cross bands on the 

 back and tail ; front of the vent with a large heart-shaped plate ; 

 lower rostral shield large ; toes slender. 



Inhab. ? 



5. Phyllodactylus, Gray. 



Toes all clawed, truncated at the tip, under side of toes with 

 transverse square plates in the middle, ending in two thin square 

 plates. Back granular, with lines of tubercles. Tail rather de- 

 pressed, brittle, with rings of rather larger tubercles? with a series 

 of rather larger scales beneath. Femoral and preanal pores none. 

 Lower rostral shield very large, pentangular, with a pair of large 

 chin-shields. 



The Phyllodactyle. Phyllodactylus pulcher, Gray^ Spic. 

 Zool. 3, t. 3,/. 1. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 397. 



Whitish, with brown marbling; scales of the back with 20 or 

 22 longitudinal series of triangular tubercles ; chin-shields 2, ra- 

 ther large, with some 6-sided scales, one on each side; tail with 

 rings (often in pairs) of rather larger 6-sided scales. 



a. In spirits, bleached. Tropical America ? 



The Large Tubercled Phyllodactyle. Phyllodactylus 

 tuberculatus, Weigm. Act. Nat. Cur. xvii. t. 18,/. 2. Dum. et Bib. 

 E, G. iii. 396. 



Grey, brown- marbled ; back with 14 or 16 series of large tri- 

 angular backed tubercles ; chin-shields large. 



a. In spirits, wants tail. California. Presented by Capt. Sir 

 Edward Belcher. 



