40 ©ECKONII)^. 



spots, forming bands across the back ; a [J-sliaped dark line from 

 eye to eye over the nape. From snout to vent 37 millim. 

 Brazil. 



a-b. Hgr. Babia or Rio Janeiro. 0. Darwin [P.]. (Types 



of Cubina dartoinii^ 



23. Gymnodactylus pelagicus. 



Heteronota pelagica, Gira7-d, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 197, and 



U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 806. 

 Gymnodactylus multicarinatus, Giinth. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hut. (4) 



X. 1872, and in Brenchley, Cwa^oa, p. 404, pi. xxiv. fig. A. 



(Heteronota) arfakianus, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 129. 



amouxii {7ion A. Dum.), Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. 



xiii. 1878, p. 372 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 129, pi. xxii. 



fig. 8. 



Head rather large, oviform, moderately depressed ; snout a little 

 longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about 

 once and two thirds the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; 

 ear-opening small, roundish. Body short, depressed. Limbs mode- 

 rate ; digits slightly depressed at the base, compressed in the remain- 

 ing portion, with well- developed transverse plates under the basal 

 phalanx. Head covered with very small granular scales ; rostral 

 subquadrangular, not quite twice as broad as high, with median 

 cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper 

 labial, two nasals, and two or three granules ; seven or eight upper 

 and as many lower labials ; mental very large, triangular, penta- 

 gonal, or trapezoid, extending considerably beyond the adjacent 

 labials, generally with a pair of chin-shields posteriorly ; no other 

 chin-shields. Upper surfaces covered with very small granules; 

 back with sixteen to twenty longitudinal series of round, sub- 

 conical, distinctly ribbed tubercles ; these series regular, equidistant, 

 the tubercles generally very close together, forming lines ; hind 

 limbs with similar, irregularly scattered tubercles. Gular scales 

 minute, granular ; abdominal scales very small, imbricate, keeled. 

 Males generally with a very short angulaf series of seven or eight 

 praeanal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, generally with uniform 

 very small keeled scales, occasionally intermixed with large tu- 

 bercles. Brown, lighter beneath ; back and limbs with more or less 

 distinct darker transverse markings ; generally a dark streak from 

 the eye to the ear-opening. 



Total length 125 millim. 



Head 18 



Width of head 12 



Body 42 „ 



Fore limb 19 „ 



Hind limb 29 „ 



Tail 65 



Islands of the Pacific ; New Guinea ; Cape York. 



