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EEPTILES. 



*** Head Jlattened, edged with a cross rib behind. Clypeosaums. ' 



The Shielded Tarentola. Tarentola clypeata, Grai/^ Zool. 

 Misc. 57. 



Head flattened and circumscribed by a cross rib behind, co- 

 vered with larger convex scales ; back granular, with cross ridges 

 of tubercles ; greyish in spirits ; limbs and tail slender. 



luhab. ? Museum of the Andersonian Institution, 



Glasgow. 



d. Claws none. Toes slender at the base^ without any compressed 



free last joint. 



27. Phelsuma, Gray. Pachydactylus (a.), Weigmann. 



Toes free, rather elongate, base rather slender, apex ovate, di- 

 lated, without any compressed last joint, clawless. Thumb very 

 small, slender, rudimentary, with plates beneath. Back with gra- 

 nular scales. Preanal pores in an angular series, extending more 

 or less along the thighs. 



Lacepede's Phelsuma. Phelsuma Cepedianus. Gecko Ce- 

 pedianus, Peron, Mus. Par. Cuv. R. A. ii. 46, t. 5,/. 5. Merrem, 

 Tent. 43. /. Geojf. Mag. Zool. t. 3 (not good). Dum. et Bib. E. 

 G. iii. 301, t. 28, f. 2. Phelsuma ornatum. Gray, Griffith, A. K. 

 ix. 49. King, Voy. ii. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 297. 



Muzzle short, rather depressed ; violet brown, sometimes red- 

 spotted ; with 6 large gular plates in the front row, the two mid- 

 dle much the largest, with 2 rather large plates behind them ; 

 lower labial 6-1-6, the central very large; preanal pores extending 

 half the length of the thighs. 



a. In spirits. Isle of France. Presented by Capt. P. P. King, 

 R.N. 



The Madagascar Phelsuma. Phelsuma Madagascariensis, 

 Gray, Griffith, A. K. ix. 47. 



Muzzle short, rather depressed ; the chin with 6 large gular 

 shields in the front row, the two middle rather the largest, with 

 2 very small 6-sided plates behind them ; lower labial 7-1-7, the 

 central rather large. 



a. Adult, in spirits. Madagascar. Presented by J. E. Gray, 



Esq. 



The Lined Phelsuma. Phelsuma lineatum. Gray, Z. M. 

 57. Gecko inunguis, Cuv. R. A. i. 46, t. 5,/. 4. Schinz, Rept. 

 t. 15, f. 1. Platydactylus ocellatus, var. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 

 298. G. Madagascarensis, jun. Gray, Griffith, A. K. ix. 49. 



Femoral and preanal pores forming an angular line ; brown 

 in spirits, with a black upper and darker lower edged white streak 

 on each side ; beneath whitish ; scales of back ovate, tubercular, 



