8 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 7. NIO 7. 



the allied genus Platypholis (P. fasciata Boulgr. ), in which 

 he, in opposition to Boulenger, has seen claws on all digits. 

 On this account he sa3^s : »Vielleicht wird sich ein ähnliches 

 Verhalten auch fiir die Hornopholis- Arten bei einer neuerlichen 

 griindlichen Untersuchung nachweisen lassen». The correct- 

 ness of this supposition appears by the facts, now mentioned. 

 Like Boulenger' s type-specimen this example is a male, 

 measuring 220 mm in total length; the length of the tail is 120 

 mm, that of the nose 12 mm. 



PJielsuma madagascariensis Gray. 

 Boulgr., Cat. Liz. I, p. 214. 



Four specimens from Andranolava and S:te Marie. Com- 

 mon in the woods, but also found in the houses. 



Hoplurus sel)»^ Dum. & Bibr. 



Boulgr., Cat. Liz. II, p. 129. 



11 specimens, the largest of Avhich measures 335 mm in 

 total length (the tail, somewhat mutilated, is 195 mm.). The 

 species was common throughout the whole district in question, 

 especially in stony places. The animals are very stationary, 

 staying in the same hole in a large tree (often in the open 

 field) or under a stone, day af ter day waiting for prey. 



Zonosaurus latieaudatus Grand. 



Grandidier, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. (2) T. 21 1869, p. 341. 

 MocQUARD, Bull. Soc. PMl. (8) T. 7—8 1894—96, p. 98. Stein- 

 DACHNER, Sitzber. Ak. Wiss. Wien T. 100 1891, p. 300. 



2 specimens from S:te Marie de Marovoay and Andrano- 

 lava among rubbish on the riverbank. Total length 465 mm. 

 (tail 315 mm.) and 490 mm (tail 325 mm.). 



I have not been able to find any good description of this 

 species in the scientific literature, Grandidier's original dia- 

 gnosis being ver}^ incomplete, andMocQUARD and Steindachner, 

 quoted above, only giving short notes about it. On this ground 

 I was ver}' doubtful whether m}^ specimens ought to be consi- 

 dered as belonging to this species or perhaps as new. Through 

 the kindness of my friend Professor E. Lönnberg and of Dr. 

 G. A. Boulenger, however, I have been assured that the spe- 

 cimens agree very well with specimens of Z. latieaudatus, kept 

 in the British Museum of Natural Histor\'. As then this spe- 



