84 



OECKOiriDJS. 



lines on the sides. A dark band from nostril, through eye, to 

 shoulder. Limbs and tail cross-banded. Head with coarse blackish 

 reticulation above, A brown spot on each labial. Below straw- 

 colour, immaculate." 



Length to vent 38 millim. 



Length to ear 10 „ 



Length of hind limb .... 70 ., 



Width of head 60 „ 



Pacasmayo, Peru. 



9. Phyllodactylus microphyllus. 



Phyllodactylus microphyllus, Cope, Journ. Ac. Philad, (2) viii. 1876, 

 p. 175. 



" Small scales of the back and sides with larger ones scattered 

 irregularly among them ; these are not very much larger, not keeled, 

 but smoothly convex, and a little smaller than the smooth flat beDy- 

 scales. Gular scales granular ; labials to pupil j. Mental large, 

 convex behind, bounded by four round scales of small size. Scales 

 of top of muzzle twice as large as those of vertex. Tail-scales 

 uniform. Transverse series of inferior side of the digits rather 

 short ; large plates of the end of the toes remarkably small, per- 

 mitting the ungual phalange to project very freely. A row of 

 prominent' scales behind the thighs on each side of the base of the 

 taU. Colour very pale^ with a few very indistinct transverse shades ; 

 in the young these shades are cross bars." 



Total length 101 millim. 



Length to vent 48 „ 



Length to ear 12 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Length of hind limb .... 20 „ 



Valley of Jequetepeque, Peru. 



10. Phyllodactylus phacophorus. 



Discodactylus phacophorus, Tschudi, Faun. Per., Herp. p. 38 j Girard, 

 U.S. Explor. Rvped., Herp. p. 300, pi. xxv. tigs. 25-32. 



Head elongate, oviform ; snout as long as the distance between 

 the eye and the ear- opening, once and one third the diameter of 

 the orbit; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening narrow, vertical. 

 Body and limbs moderate. Digits slender, scarcely depressed, with 

 a series of transverse lamellae inferiorly, thirteen to fifteen under 

 the fourth toe ; digital expansions very small, longitudinally sub- 

 oval, scarcely wider than the slender digits. Snout covered with 

 small polygonal convex scales ; hinder part of head with minute 

 granules intermixed with round tubercles. Rostral four-sided, not 

 twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 



