2. CH0NDR0DACTTLT7S. 3. RHTNCHCEDURA. 11 



1. Chondrodactylus angulifer, (Plate II. fig. 5.*) 

 Cliondrodactylus angulifer, Peters, ^. c. p. Ill, pi. — . fig. 1. 



Head large, swollen ; snout very short and convex, as long as 

 the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the latter and 

 the ear-opening; interorbital space narrow, a little concave; ear- 

 opening an oblique slit, measuring half the diameter of the orbit. 

 Body short, not depressed. Limbs rather slender. Snout and crown 

 covered with polygonal scales, largest round the orbit ; temples and 

 occiput with small granules intermixed with keeled tubercles ; rostral 

 small, pentagonal ; nostril pierced between three nasals, the anterior 

 being the largest and in contact with its fellow ; nine or ten upper 

 and ten or eleven lower labials ; mental narrow, a little longer than 

 the adjacent labials ; no chin-shields. Upper surface of body covered 

 with irregular flat granules intermixed with round keeled tubercles. 

 Throat granulate ; abdominal region with small smooth subhexa- 

 gonal imbricate scales. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with 

 irregular flat scales, intermixed above with conical tubercles ar- 

 ranged in transverse series. Light grey-brown above, with five 

 more or less marked blackish angular transverse bands on the back ; 

 sometimes round white spots on the sides of the back ; a median 

 longitudinal dark streak on the nape ; an oblique dark band from 

 the eye towards the latter ; tail with dark annuli above ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



Total length 126 millim. 



Head 22 



Width of head 19 



Body 52 



Fore limb 27 



Hind limb 32 



Tail 52 



The Trustees of the South- 

 African Museum [P.]. 



3. RHYNCHOEDURA. 



Rhynchcedura, G'unth. Ann. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, p. 50. 



Digits cylindrical, slightly compressed, clawed, covered with 

 uniform small granules. Scales uniformly granular, subimbricate 

 on ventral region. Rostral and mental plates projecting, nail-like. 

 Pupil vertical. 



Australia. 



* Lower surface of hand, X 2 ; a. Lower eurface of fourth finger, x 4. 



