10 GBCKONIDJB. 



opening ; eye very large ; nostril rather large, transversely ellip- 

 tical, directed backwards ; loreal region and forehead concave ; ear- 

 opening a long vertical slit, measuring three fifths the diameter of 

 the orbit, vs^ith the tympanum deeply sunk. Body short, not much 

 depressed. Limbs long, slender. Head above with irregular small 

 rough tubercles confluent with the cranial ossification, intermixed 

 with conical ones on the temples and upper eyelids, larger and 

 keeled on the internasal region and in front of the orbit, smallest 

 in the frenal and frontal concavities ; a series of larger tubercles 

 bordering the orbit superiorly. Eostral broad and very low ; no 

 nasals, the nostril being surrounded by minute granules and widely 

 separated from the rostral and labial plates ; latter small, twelve 

 upper and thirteen lower ; mental like the rostral, but narrower ; 

 no chin-shields. Body and limbs finely granular, above and on the 

 sides with round groups of conical spinose tubercles, the one iu 

 the centre being the largest ; gular region similarly tuberculate, 

 but the spinose tubercles smaller ; the granules round the mandible 

 larger than the others and keeled. The extremely small tail is 

 swollen in its proximal, and thin and tapering in its distal half, and 

 •scaled like the body ; the globular knob terminating it covered with 

 small keeled granules ; this knob is emarginate inferiorly in front, 

 beiug thus kidney-shaped. Brownish above, with many of the 

 tubercles white ; faint indications of whitish transverse lines on the 

 back ; head with a wide-meshed network of blackish lines, simu- 

 lating symmetrical plates ; lower parts whitish. 



Total length 114 millim. 



Head 27 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 65 ,, 



Fore limb 42 „ 



Hind limb 48 „ 



Tail 22 „ 



Eastern Australia. 



a. (5. Peak Downs. Museum Godeffroy. (Type.) 



2. CHONDRODACTYLUS. 



Chondrodactylus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1870, p. 110. 



Digits very short, cylindrical, clawless, with obtuse tips bent 

 downwards, inferiorly with uniform minute spinose granules ; the 

 skin swollen on the palmar surface and under the articulations of 

 the digits, simulating pads. Body covered above with flat granules 

 intermixed with larger tubercles, below with imbricate scales. Pupil 

 vertical. No pra'anal nor femoral pores. 



South Africa. 



