LIZARDS. 157 



** Tail depressed, closely toothed on the side. 



Garnot's Doryure. Dorynra Garnotii. Hemidactylus Gar- 

 notii, Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 358. H. Isvis, Gray, B. M. 1836. 



Back witli very fine equal granules; chin -shields 4, fonning 

 a square, isolated from the lahial plates ; tail lanceolate, flat, ta- 

 ])ering, distinctly toothed on the sides. 



a. In sjjirits. South Sea Islands. From Mr. S. Stuchlmry's col- 

 lection. 



12. Platyurus. 



Toes half webhed, ovate, dilated towards the end, with 2 di- 

 verging rows of scales henealh, last joint free, compressed, pro- 

 duced, clawed. Thumb small, like the toes, and clawed. Sides 

 and thighs with a membranaceous expansion. Tail flattened, 

 lanceolate, unarmed, thin and fringed with spines on the edge. 

 Males with the femoral and preanal pores continued. 



The Platyure. Platyurus Schneiderianus, Stellio platy- 

 urus, Schneid. Amph. 30. Mun. Acad. 1812, t. 1,/. 3. Merrem, 

 Tent. 41. Weigm. Acad. Nat. Cur. xvii. 288. Lacerta Schneide- 

 riana, Shaiv, Zool. 41, 278. Hemidactvlus marginatus, Weigm. 

 Amp. 145. Ciiv. R. A. ii. 584. Diim. et Bib. E. G. iii. 370, t. 50, 



Skin with very small equal granulations. 



a, h. In spirits. Java. From the Leyden Museum. 



c. In spirits. Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, 



CB., R.rs . 

 d — f. In spirits, Philippines. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 

 g. In spirits, bleached. Presented by the College of Surgeons. 



13. Leiurus. 



Toes webbed at the base, rather dilated towards the end, with 

 2 series of close rather diverging plates beneath, the last joint ra- 

 ther elongate, compressed, free, clawed. Tail cylindrical, taper- 

 ing, covered with minute granulations, and with a series of large 

 6-sided shields beneath. Sides and limbs rounded. Back with 

 minute equal granular scales. Preanal and femoral pores in an 

 angular series (very small). 



The Banded Leiurus. Leiurus ornatus. 



Pale, with a horse-shoe shaped band on the nape, with a streak 

 over the ears to the back of the eye; back with 3 and tail with 6 

 or 7 broad black bands, broader towards the black tip of the tail ; 

 back with series of sunken rather convex circular tubercles; tail 

 slender, subangular, equally granular, unarmed, tapering. 



a. In spirits. W. Africa. From Mr. Raddon's collection. 



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