GYMNODACTYLUS ANTILT-ENSIS. 129 



NOTE VIII. 



ON A COLLECTION OF REPTILES AND FISHES 

 FROM THE WEST-INDIES. 



Dr. Th. W. van LIDTH de JEUDE. 



(Plate 2). 



During the Dutch Expedition to the West-Indies the 

 following reptiles and fishes were collected by Mr. J. R. H. 

 Neervoort van de Poll , the Zoologist of the Expedition , who 

 afterwards presented them to the Ley den Museum. 



Liuceiftilia. 



1. Gymnodacty lus antillensis, nov. spec. (PI. 2, fig. 1). 



Head a fourth of the length of the body without tail , 

 earopening oval , snout as long as the diameter of the 

 orbit , pupil vertical. Back covered with uniform , juxta- 

 posed round tubercles all of the same size, except those 

 on the median line , which are smaller. Rostral large , 

 broader than high, with a median cleft, followed by two 

 rather large scales separated one from another by a small 

 azygos shield , situated just behind the cleft of the rostral. 

 Nostril pierced between the rostral , the large shield behind 

 the rostral , two smaller nasalia and '^the first labial. Six 

 upper and four or five lower labials. The first lower labial 

 being very large, the last labials always small. Mental large, 

 subcampanuliform , followed by one rather large shield , 

 which is surrounded by scales gradually decreasing in size , 

 passing in the very small granules of the throat. Abdomi- 

 nal scales in 16 rows, round, imbricate, larger than the 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol, IX. 



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