23. HEMIDACXTLirS. 123 



Fore limb 27 millim. 



Hind limli 36 „ 



Tail . . ♦ 85 „ 



South America ; "West Indies ; Madagascar ; South Africa, 



7. Hemidactylus muriceus. 

 Hemidactylus muriceus, Peteis, Mon. Beii. Ac. 1870, p. 641, 



" Numerous small pointed conical tubercles irregularly scattered 

 among the fine dorsal granulation. Tail with similar longer tuber- 

 cles. Snout with larger convex scales, eight or nine infralabials. A 

 larger chin-shield, followed by smaller ones, on each side behind 

 the pointed mental. Ear-opening .almost vertical, rather narrow. 

 Chin and throat finely granulate. Ventral scales in the middle in 

 thirty-three longitudinal rows; on each side a feeble longitudinal 

 fold on which the lower tubercles are inserted. Grey-brown, with 

 narrow M- or V-shaped dark irregular transverse bands ; similar 

 cross bands on the tail and limbs. Lower surfaces lighter with 

 small darker dots, more numerous and confluent on the chin. Total 

 length 86 millim. ; head 13 millim, ; tail 46 millim," 



Keta, Guiaea, 



8. Hemidactylus echinns. (Plate XI. fig. 3.) 



Hemidactylus echinus, G'Shaughn. Ann. <§• Maa. N. H. (4) xvi, 

 1875, p. 264, 



Snout rather pointed, longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, once and on6 third the diameter of the orbit ; 



