202 GECKONID^. 



depressed, tapering, distinctly annulate. Head covered with small 

 convex scales, largest on the occiput ; naso-rostrals generally in 

 contact ; rostral broader than high ; upper labials eight or nine, the 

 anterior as large as the mental ; latter twice as long as broad, nar- 

 rowing posteriorly ; cheeks with large keeled tubercles. Upper 

 parts covered with small keeled scales intermixed with large strongly 

 keeled ones arranged in longitudinal series ; flanks with conical 

 tubercles. Abdominal scales imbricate, largest on the sides of the 

 belly. Upper surface and sides of tail with imbricated keeled scales 

 and transverse rows of large, posteriorly directed, strongly keeled, 

 spinose scales ; lower surface of tail with rather large, flat, hexa- 

 gonal, smooth scales. Brown or brownish grey above ; a dark 

 brown line on each side of the head, passing through the eye, and 

 another from the nostril to the upper border of the orbit ; back and 

 tail with more or less distinct transverse, narrow, dark brown bands ; 

 sometimes a few scattered white spots on the back ; lower surfaces 

 whitish or brownish. 



Total length 164 millira. 



Head 25 „ 



Width of head 23 „ 



Body 70 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 37 „ 



Tail 69 „ 



Africa, from Benguela and Mozambique to the Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



a. Ad. V Benguela. Prof. BarbozaduBocage [P.]. 



b-c. Ad. Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [P.]. 



d-g. Ad. Free State, Orange F. P. M. Weale, Esn. [P.]. 



River. 



h. Several spec. : Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Tvpes.) 



ad., hgr., & yg. 

 t. Ad. S. Africa. 



k-o,p-q. Ad. &hgT. Tette. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



(Types of Homodactylus tumeri.) 



2. Pachydactylus capensis. 



? Pachydactylus elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 168. 

 Tarentola capensis, Smith, III. S. Afr., Rept. pi. 1. fig. 2. 

 Pachydactylus capensis. Smith, I. c. Errata. 



Head regularly oviform, not much broader than the neck ; snout 

 a little longer than the diameter of the orbit. Eur-opening oval, 

 oblique. Body depressed. Limbs moderate; digits short, rather 

 slender, distinctly broader at the end than at the base, the dilated 

 part with ftve or six lamellie inferiorly. Tail rather depressed, 

 tapering, distinctly annulate. Snout covered with convex scales 

 which are much larger than the granules of the back ; hinder part 

 of head covered with granules intermixed with large round tubercles; 



