122 GECKONTDiB. 



6. Hemidactylns mabonia. 



Hemidactylus maboma, Gray, Cat. p. 154. 

 Hemidactylus mercatorius, Gray, I. c. p. 165. 



Gecko mabouia, Moreau de Jonnks, BtiU. Soc. Philom. 1818, p. 138; 

 Cuv. It. A. ii. p. 54. 



tuberculosus, Raddi, Mem. Soc. Modena, xix. 1823, p. 63. 



aculeatus, 8pix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. p. 16, pi. xviii. fig. 3. 



cruciger, Spix, I. c. p. 16. 



Thecadactylus pollicaris, Spix, I. c. p. 17, pi. xviii. fig. 2. 



Gecko incanescens, Wied, Beitr. Naturg, Bras. p. 102. 



annatus, Wied, I. c. p. 104. 



Hemidactylus mabonia, Dum. 4" Bib)-, iii. p. 3G2 ; Guichen. in 

 Casteln. Amer. Sud, Bept, p. 12 ; Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mossamb. 

 p. 21, pi. i. f. 1 ; Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 283, 

 pi. XXV. figs. 9-16 ; Boettger, AbJi. Senck. Ges. xi. 1879, p. 478, & 

 xii. 1881, p. 467 ; Peters, Beise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 27. pi. v. fig. 3. 



mercatorius, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 58 ; Boettger, Abh. Senck. 



Ges. xi. 1877, p. 23, pi. i. fig. 4. 



(Tachybates) mabuya, Fitzing. Syst. JR^t. p. 105. 



( ) armatus, Fitzing. I. c. 



platycephalus, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 615; Bocage, 



Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 209. 



hexaspis, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 320. 



tuberculosus, Peters, eod. loc. 1877, p. 414. 



freuatus (wore D. <§• B.), Boettg. eod. loc. 1878, p. 275, pl.i. fig. 1. 



Snout considerably longer than the distance between the eye and 

 the ear-opening, once and a half to once and two thirds the diameter 

 of the orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, half or 

 two fifths the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. 

 Digits free, moderately dilated, inner weU developed; five or six 

 lamellae under the inner digits, and seven to nine under the median 

 ones. Snout covered with small convex granules ; hinder part of 

 head with minute granules intermixed with round tubercles ; 

 rostral fouj-sided, nearly twice as broad as high, with median 

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

 and three or four nasals ; ten to fourteen upper and nine or ten 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular ; two or three pairs of chin- 

 shields, median largest and in contact behind the point of the mental. 

 Upper surface of body covered with small granules intermixed with 

 small, irregularly scattered, convex or subtrihedral tubercles Abdo- 

 minal scales small, cycloid, imbricate. Male with a long uninter- 

 rupted series of femoral pores, fifteen to thirty on each side. Tail 

 cylindrical, feebly depressed, covered above with very small scales 

 intermixed with large conical tubercles in six longitudinal series ; 

 iuferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 or light brown above, with dark spots or undulated cross bands ; 

 white beneath. 



Total length 166 millim. 



Head 22 „ 



Width of head 17 „ 



Body 59 „ 



