228 SECKONID^. 



The following genus, characterized by Gray in 1842, has never 

 been rediscovered ; the type is not to be found in the Collection. 

 If the description is correct, this Gecko constitutes a distinct genus. 



Phyria, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 53. 



" Toes moderate, base scaly above and below, dilated, ends ex- 

 panded into a rounded disk, with two series of diverging plates be- 

 neath, last joint free, compressed, clawed; thumb of fore and hind 

 feet smaller, clawless ; back covered with small granular, belly with 

 rather larger scales ; labial and chin-shields distinct ; tail round, 

 tapering, with a series of large hexagonal plates beneath ; praeanal 

 pores distinct, in an angular line. Like Ptyodactylus, but the toes 

 are shorter, thicker, dilated at the base, and it has praeanal pores." 



Phyria punctulata, Gray, I. c. 



" Olive-grey, in spirit ; scales minutely black-speckled ; lips, 

 Bides of throat, chest, belly, and underside of tail yellow." 

 Port Essington. 



The following bones of an apparently extinct Lacertilian, from 

 Rodriguez, have been referred to Oec^o (Gecko newtonii, Giinther, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xiii. 1878, p. 324), which generic identifica- 

 tion seems to me extremely doubtful, the parietal bone being single, 

 whereas it is double in all known Geckoids. 



a. Two parietals, posterior Rodriguez. Transit-of- Venus Exped. 



half of right ramus of 

 loweriaw, righthumeriis, 

 right half of pelvis, five 

 left and two right fe- 

 mora. 



