49. SPH^RODACITLIJS. 



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brown above, covered with more or less confluent darker specks ; 

 lower surfaces whitish, the sides and throat speckled with brown. 

 From snout to vent 32 millim. 

 Jamaica. 



a. Ad. 



St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica. P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 



10. SphaBrodactylus argus. (Plate XYIII. fig. 5.) 



Sphserodactylus argus, Gosse, Ann. Mag. N. H. (2) vi. 1850, p. 347 ; 

 Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1861, p. 498. 



Snout pointed, as long as the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening, once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening 

 small, oval, vertical. Eostral moderately large, with longitudinal 

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

 and three scales ; five upper and as many lower labials, the anterior 

 very long ; mental large, truncate posteriorly, followed by granules 

 larger than those on the throat. A small spine-like scale on the 

 border of the upper eyelid, above the middle of the eye. Head and 

 throat covered with very small granular scales, largest on the snout ; 

 back covered with medium-sized, flat, imbricate, keeled scales ; these 

 dorsal scales about two thirds the size of the ventrals, which are 

 smooth and imbricate. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with im- 

 bricate smooth scales, the lower median series of which are enlarged. 

 Pale brown above, with small, yellowish, dark-edged ocelli ; on the 

 head these ocelli are generally lengthened, and frequently more or 

 less confluent into six longitudinal lines, which sometimes extend 

 along the back. Lower surfaces whitish, the throat variegated with 

 brown. 



Total length 58 millim. 



Head 9 



Width of head 5 



Body 22 



Fore limb 8 



Hind limb 10 



Tail 27 



Jamaica. 



a-c, d-e. Ad. 



.f-i- Yg. 



k. Ad. 



Ir-yn, n, o, j>. Ad. 



Jamaica. 

 Jamaica. 



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P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 

 Sir W. Hooker [P.]. 



11. Sphaerodactylus fantasticus. / 



Sphferodactylus fantasticus, part., G7'm/, Cat. p. 1G8. 

 Sphserodactylus fantasticus (Cuv.), Dum. ^ Bihr. iii. p. 406, pi. xxxii. 

 fig. 2 ; A. Dum. Arch. Mus. viii. p. 469, pi. xvii. fig. 3 ; Cope, Proc. 



