74 



eECKONiD-a:. 



a, S- Singapore. (Type.) 



h.2' Borneo. A. K.Wallace, Esq. [C.]. (Type 



of Pentadactylus borneenais.) 



2. JElnrosannis dorsalis. 



Pentadactylus dorsalis, Peters, Mon. Bm-l. Ac. 1871, p. 669, and 

 Ann, Miis. Oenov. iii. 1872, pi. ii. fig. 2. 

 " Brown with a yellow median dorsal band, which is bordered on 

 each side by a row of small flat tubercles well distinguished from 

 the surrounding fine granulation. On each side of the body a row 

 of scattered yellow dots. Otherwise quite similar to jM. felinus.''^ 

 Sarawak. 



3. JElurosaurus ? bnumeus. 

 Pentadactylus brunneus, Cope, Proc. Ac. PhUad. 1868, p. 320. 



" Nostrils surrounded by four small shields and the first labial, 

 the rostral being excluded. The anterior of these scales separat<ed 

 from its fellow by a polygonal scale, which is not included in a notch 

 of the rostral. Rostral fissured above. Superior labials eleven, 

 last two minute ; two or three of them longer than high. Distin- 

 guishable inferior labials nine ; two first much deeper than long. 

 Infralabials not marked, forming some four or five rows of small 

 ovate scales. Scaling of the body coarse. No superciliary spine ; 

 no praeanal pores. Pree joints of the toes, especially of the thumbs, 

 thick. Tail with whorls of flat hexagonal scales, abruptly separated 

 from those of the sacrum above. Colour above brown, with seven 

 irregular undulate, transverse bars of very deep brown, between 

 rump and nape. Below pale." 



Australia. 



15. HETERONOTA. 



Heteronota, part., Chay, Cat. p. 174. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, inferiorly with a row of plates ; claw 

 between three enlarged scales, the latero-inferior pair forming a 

 longitudinal suture. Body covered above vnth granules and tubercles, 

 inferiorly with imbricate scales. Pupil vertical. Males with pra5- 

 anal pores. 



Australia. 



1. Heteronota hinoei. 



Heteronota binoei. Gray, Cat. p. 174. 

 Heteronota binoei, part., Giinth. Jbm. 8f Mag. N. H. (3) xx. 1867, 

 p. 60. 



Head oviform, moderately depressed, large, measuring a little 

 more than one third the distance between end of snout and vent ; 

 snout a little longer than the diameter of the orbit, as long as the 



