224 GECKONID^. 



Ac. Philad^ 1801, p. 500 ; Reinh. ^ Liitk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1862, 

 p. 277 ; Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Max., Rept. p, 44, pi. x. fig. 4. 



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 

 roundish, about as large as digital expansion. Rostral large, with 

 longitudinal cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the 

 first labial, and three scales ; three upper labials, median smallest ; 

 three lower labials, first very large, third very small ; mental large, 

 truncate posteriorly. A small spine-like scale on the border of the 

 upper eyelid, above the centre of the eye. Upper surface of head 

 covered with small, granular, slightly keeled scales, largest on the 

 snout. Back covered with subrhomboidal imbricate scales about the 

 size of the ventral scales'; the vertebral line covered with minute 

 granular scales. Scales on the limbs small, slightly keeled. Gular 

 scales granular, abdominal scales large, imbricate, smooth. Tail 

 cylindrical, tapering, covered with smooth imbricate scales, with a 

 series of large transversely dilated plates inferiorly. Light brown 

 above, the head generally darker, vermiculated with white lines ; 

 whitish beneath. 



Total length 54 millim. 



Head 7 », 



Width of head 5 „ 



Body 20 



Fore limb 8 „ 



Hind limb 10-5 „ 



Tail 27 „ 



West Indies ; Mexico ; Venezuela. 



a. Ad. Caraccas. 



b. Ad. Antigua, 



12. Sphaerodactylus microlepis. 



Sphserodactylus fantasticus, var., A. Dum. Arch. Mus. viii. p. 469, 



pi. xvii. tig. 4. 



microlepis, Reinh. ^ Liitk. Vidensk. Meddel. 1802, p. 278. 



melanospilos (A. Jhim.), Bocourt, Miss. Sc. Mex., Rept. p. 44 



(footnote). 



Distinguished from /S. fantasticus in having the snout shorter and 

 more obtuse, the dorsal scales smaller, and the granules forming a 

 less distinct zone on the middle of the back larger. Bocourt adds 

 that the ventral scales are keeled and that there are no enlarged 

 inferior caudal scales. Back with dark spots and large transverse 

 markings ; throat lineolate with brown. 



West Indies (Sa. Lucia, St. Croix). 



