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Mode of reprodiictio)!. 

 Oviparous. Eggs round, with a hard shell. 



Gymnodactylus, Spix. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, cylindrical or slightly depi-essed at 

 the base ; the two or three distal phalanges compressed, forming 

 an angle with the basal portion of the digits ; the claw between 

 two enlarged scales, (a superior and an inferior), of which the 

 inferior is more or less deeply notched under the claw ; digits 

 inferiorly with a. row of more or less distinct transverse plates. 



Body variously scaled. Pupil vertical. Males with or without 

 prreanal or femoral pores. 



The genus as defined ranges over Australia ; the islands of the 

 Pacific ; Tropical America ; the borders of the Mediterranean ; 

 Southern Asia. The species with greatly swollen or broadened 

 tails, forming the section Fhy/lurus, Fitzing, are confined to 

 Australia. 



Gymxodactylus miliusii, Bory. 



Phyllurui iniliusii, Gray, Cat., p. 176. 



Phyllurus miliusii, Bory de St. Vincent, Diet. Hist. Nat. vii., 

 p. 183, pi. — fig. 1 ; Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, pi. xvii., fig. 2 ; 

 McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 132. 



Cyrtodactylus nilii, Gray, Grifl', A.K. ix. Syn., p. 52. 



Gymnodactylus miliusii, Dum. and Bibr. iii., p. 430, pi. xxxiii., 

 fig. 1 ; Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac, 1863, p. 229. 



Gymnodactylus (Anomalurus) 7niliusii, Fitz. Syst. Kept., p. 90. 



Description. — " Head large oviform ; snout a little longer than 

 the diameter of the orbit, as long as the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening ; forehead and loreal region concave ; ear- 

 opening elliptical, vertical, about three-fifths the diameter of the 

 eye. Body moderate. Limbs long, slender ; digits rather short, 

 subcylindrical. Snout covered with granules of unequal size ; 

 hinder part of head with minute granules intermixed with round 

 tubercles ; rostral subquadrangular, three times as broad as high ; 

 nostril directed posteriorly, separated from the rostral and first 

 labial by two nasals ; labials small, eleven to fourteen upper and 

 ten to twelve lower ; mental broadly trapezoid ; no regular chin- 



