'130 GYMNODACTYI-US ANTITXENSIS. 



dorsal tubercles. No femoral or praeaual pores. Tail very 

 fragile , cylindrical , covered with small round imbricate 

 scales , those of the median series of the underside being 

 much lar<i;er than the rest. 



Brown above, with darker spots forming bands across 

 the back , two dark brown U-shaped lines from eye to 

 eye , the first and upper over the crown of the head , the 

 second, lower, over the nape. Lower surface whitish. 



Total length 70 m.m. 



Head 9 m.m. 



Fore limb 11 m.m. 



Hind limb 14 m.m. 



Tail 33 m.m. 



Many specimens were captured in Cura9ao and Aruba. 

 2. Phyllodactylus Martini, nov. spec. (PI. 2, fig. 2 and 3). 



Head large , oviform , very distinct from neck ; the skin 

 confluent with the cranial ossifications , crown of the head 

 and interorbital space convex, a longitudinal shallow 

 groove on the snout. Distance between the earopening and 

 the orbit nearly as large as the diameter of the orbit, 

 length of the snout one and two thirds the diameter of the 

 orbit. Limbs moderate, digits inferiorly with one row of 

 scales , distal expansion subcordiform , moderately large. 



Head covered with very small, polygonal scales, flat on 

 the snout, somewhat convex on the interorbital space and 

 on the crown of the head. Rostral large , twice as broad as 

 high ; nostril pierced between the rostral , three nasalia 

 (the anterior, upper, being by far the largest) and 

 the first labial. Mental pentagonal, followed by. one rather 

 large scale , the others decreasing in size. Upper surface of 

 the body covered with rather large keeled shields, serially 

 arranged and leaving but very little space for fine granula- 

 tions between them. Thé arrangement of those shields is very 

 regular on the middle of the back, where a broader median 

 streak , covered with fine granulations , separates two or three 



Notes Iron» the Leyden M^useum , ^"ol. IX. 



