76 BmsKomum, 



Body 32 millim. 



Fore limb 15 „ 



Hind limb 22 „ 



Tail 56 „ 



Northern and Eastern Australia. 



a. $ . Port Essington. Lord Derby [P.]. (Type.) 



b-c. 2 • N. Australia. .T. Elsey, Esq. [P.], 



d. cJ . Peak Downs. Godef&oy Museum. 



e. $ . Rockhampton. 



f. d". Queensland. 



ff. S ' Australia. Sir J. Richardson [P.]. 



3. Heteronota? eboracensis. 



Heteronota eboracensis, Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 1877, 

 p. 101. 



" Form rather robust ; head broad ; tail much shorter than the 

 body ; internasal shields rather short and not contiguous ; labials 

 nine upper and eight lower, the last two of each very small ; scales 

 mostly tricarinate ; tubercles on the back numerous and nearly 

 smooth ; scales on the tail all smooth ; colour, above speckled grey 

 and black ; legs and under surface pale with numerous minute black 

 dots. Length 3 inches." 



Cape York. 



16. PHYLLODACTYLTJS*. 



Phyllodactylus, Oray, Spicil. Zool. 1830, p. 3; Fitz. Syst. Rept. p. 94 ; 



Gray, Cat. p. 150. 

 Sphaerodactylus, part., Wagler, Syst. Amph. p. 143. 

 Phyllodactylus, part., Wiegm, Herp. Mex. p. 20 ; Dum. 4" Bibr. iii. 



p. 388. 

 Euleptes, lUz. I. e. p. 95. 

 Discodactylus, Fitz. I. c. p. 95. 

 Diplodactylus, part., Wiegm. I.e.-, Fitz. I.e. p. 94; Oray, Cat. Liz. 



p. 148. 

 Paroedura, Qiinth. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (6) iii. 1879, p. 218. 



Digits more or less slender, free, all clawed, with transverse 

 lamelliB or tubercles inferiorly, the extremity more or less dilated, 

 with two largo plates inferiorly, separated by a longitudinal groove 

 in which the claw is retractile ; the distal expansion covered above 

 with scales strongly differentiated from those on the basal portion 

 of the digit. Upper surfaces covered with juxtaposed scales, uni- 

 form or intermixed with larger tubercles ; abdominal scales generally 

 imbricate. Pupil vertical. Males without prseanal nor femoral 

 pores. 



Tropical America ; Australia ; Africa ; islands of the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



* Phyllodactylus androyensis, Grandid. Rev. Mag. Zool. xii. 1867, p. 233. — 

 S.W. Madagascar. 



