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eggs were found commonly in the same situations, many containing 

 large embryos at this season (December). At Tagus Cove they were 

 much less common. Found only at the head of the cove under loose 

 blocks of tufa and in mangrove swamps near Turtle Point where a 

 few were secured beneath the bark of Avicetinia. Such individuals 

 as inhabit mangrove swamps may occasionally be carried out to sea on 

 logs or other drift material and thus floated to other islands. It seems 

 quite probable that this may have been the manner of their distribu- 

 tion. The stomachs of these mangrove swamp specimens contained 

 remains of the large crickets, Liparoscelis^ which also live beneath 

 the bark of the same trees. 



Phyllodactylus galapagoensis. 



PHYLLODACTYLUS BAURI Garman. 



Phyllodactyhts (^ahipagoensis Gv^inKK, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 67, 1877. — BouL., 

 Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., i, p. 82, 1885. — Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xil, 

 p. 145, 1889. 



Phyllodactylus batiri Gakma'S, Bull. Essex Inst., xxiv, p. 10, 1892. 



Range. — Galapagos Archipelago: Charles Island (Petrel, Alba- 

 tross, 1S8S (.^), Baur, Hopkins Stanford Expedition); Hood Island 

 (Hopkins Stanford Exped.) ; Gardner Island (Hopkins Stanford 

 Expedition). 



Specific Characters. — Digital pallets small; width less than one 

 half diameter of eye: rounded or oblong. Dorsal tubercles small, 



