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limbs covered with imbricate cycloid scales contrasting with the 

 minute grannies on the chin and anterior part of the throat ; abdominal 

 scales considerably larger than the dorsal tubercles, about 9 contained 

 in the distance from nostril to eye ; on the under side of the thighs the 

 outer row of scales is larger, bearing 32 femoral pores, which are not 

 interrupted in the middle; fingers and toes free, all with long, com- 

 pressed, angularly raised and clawed distal phalanges; basal dilajted 



Figure 31. — Hemidactylus mabouia: a, Dorsal view of head and body; b, underside of head; 

 c, side of head; d, ventral scales; e, femoral region and underside of foot;/, upper side of 

 tail. M.C.Z. No. 1327, from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. One and one-half times natural size. 



portion with five pairs of lamellae under the inner toe and seven 

 under the middle one in addition to the large unpaired terminal one; 

 tail cylindrical, distinctly depressed, covered above with small granules 

 a little larger than tbose on the back of the head; tail at the base with 

 six longitudinal rows of conical tubercles, and more distally with the 

 same number of very elongate tubercles in whorls eight or nine scales 



