28 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



PlIYLLODACTYLUS MARMORATUS, Gray. 



Diplodactylus marmoratus, Gray, Cat., p. 149. 



Diplodactylus inarvwratus, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, pi. 

 XV., fig. 6; McCoy, Prodr. Zool. Vict., pi. 132. 



Phyllodactylus porphyreiis., part, Dum. and Bibr. iii., p. 393. 



Phyllodactylus peronii^ Fitz. Syst. Rept., p. 95. 



Description. — " Head oviform, much longer than broad; snout 

 rounded, a little longer than the distance between the eye and 

 the ear-opening, once and two-fifths the diameter of the orbit ; 

 forehead very slightly concave ; ear-opening small, roundish or 

 oval, its diameter one-third to one-half that of the eye. Body 

 rather elongate ; limbs moderate. Digits not much depressed ; 

 digital expansions moderate, rounded, subtrapezoid ; the diameter 

 of the disk of the fourth toe equals two-thirds the diameter of 

 the eye ; the slender part of the digit with regular transverse 

 laraellsB inferiorly, which are broken up into small scales a short 

 distance in advance of the distal expansion ; seven or eight 

 entire lamellse under the fourth toe. Upper surfaces covered 

 with uniform small granules, largest on the snout, smallest on 

 the hinder part of the head. Rostral pentagonal or hexagonal, 

 the posterior angle being truncate, the latero-superior angles 

 touching the nostril ; the latter is pierced posteriorly to the 

 suture of the rostral and first labial, and between the latter and 

 three nasals ; eight or nine upper and as many lower hibials ; 

 mental trapezoid or pentagonal, not larger than the adjacent 

 labials ; no regular chin-shields, but small polygonal scales, 

 passing gradually into the minute granules of the gular region. 

 Abdominal scales moderate, smooth subhexagonal, slightly 

 imbricate. Tail long, cylindrical, tapering in its posterior half, 

 covered with uniform small smooth scales, rather large inferiorly, 

 arranged in rings. Colour. — Greyish or reddish-brown above, 

 variegated with dark-brown ; whitish inferiorly. 



Total length ... ... 119 mm. 



Head 13 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 38 „ 



Fore-limb ... ... 17 „ 



Hind-limb 21 „ 



Tail ... ... ... 68 „ '' — Boulenger. 



