90 eECEONIB^. 



17. EBENAVIA. 



Ebenavia, Boettger, Ahh. Senck. Ges. xi. 1878, p. 276. 



Differs from Phyllodactylus in having aU the digits destitute of 

 claws. 



Madagascar. 



1. Ebenavia innjignis. 



Ebenavia inunguis, Boettg. I. e. pi. i. fig. 3, 



Snout pointed. Body and limbs moderate. Digits with regular 

 transverse lamellse inferiorly and large truncate trapezoid digital 

 expansion. Head covered with small granules ; a series of conical 

 tubercles from the orbit to the back ; rostral narrow ; ten upper 

 and nine lower labials ; mental triangular ; no regular chin-shields. 

 Upper surface of body covered with small granules intermixed 

 with tubercles which are not much more than twice larger, trihe- 

 dral, and somewhat pointed ; they form eight to ten irregular series 

 along the back. Abdominal scales small, granular. Tail cylin- 

 drical, with annuli of large spinose tubercles. Olive-brown above ; 

 a broad blackish-brown lateral band from the nostril through the 

 eye to the base of the tail ; the series of tubercles behind the eye 

 yellowish white ; lower surfaces greyish, darker-dotted. 



Total length (tail injured) 53*5 millim. 



Head 10-5 „ 



Width of head 6 



Body 22-5 „ 



Nossi Be. 



2. Ebenavia boettgeri (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



Head very long, pyramidal, depressed; snout pointed, much 

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

 and two thirds the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening small, oval, 

 horizontal. Body elongate ; limbs short. Digital expansions well 

 developed, trapezoid, separated from the infradigital lamellae by 

 three rows of granules ; lameUse, ten under the fourth toe. Front 

 part of head covered with small polygonal, elongate, triearinate scales ; 

 hinder part with small granules ; rostral four-sided, very low, four 

 times as broad as high ; nostril pierced between the first labial and 

 four nasals, the anterior of which is very large and in contact with 

 the rostral, the following smaller, and the two hinder ones not 

 difierentiated from the adjoining small scales ; eight upper and nine 

 lower labials ; mental campanuliform, small, smaller than the adja- 

 cent labials; no chin-shields. Body covered above with small 

 triearinate granules intermixed with larger, roundish, slightly 

 keeled tubercles ; these tubercles are about twice as large as the 



