230 EtTBLEPHARIBJt. 



1. Psilodactylus caudicinctus. 



Stenodactylus caudicinctus, A. Dum. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 478, 

 pi. xiii. and Cat. Meth. Rept, p. 48, and Arch. Mies. viii. p. 489, 

 pi. xviii. fig. 15. 



Psilodactylus caudicinctus, Gray, I. c. 



Body stout ; limbs short, weak ; digits very short. Snout as long 

 as the distance between the orbit and the ear-opening ; latter large, 

 oval, slightly oblique, its longitudinal diameter half the diameter of 

 the orbit. Head covered with flat, irregular, polygonal tubercles, 

 largest on the temples ; rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as high, 

 with median cleft above ; nostril between several scales, the anterior 

 of which is largest and widely separated from its fellow on the other 

 side ; eight to ten upper, and about ten lower labials ; mental 

 broadly pentagonal, in contact with two enlarged chin-shields, sur- 

 rounded by irregular smaller ones passing gradually into the flat 

 granules of the gular region. Body covered above with small, 

 irregular, flat scales intermixed with numerous suboval, obtusely 

 keeled tubercles, which on the sides unite three to three. Male with 

 thirteen praeanal pores. Tail swollen, rounded, tapering at the end, 

 circularly plaited, above with small flat scales and rows of enlarged 

 obtusely keeled tubercles, inferiorly with larger flat scales arranged 

 regularly. Cream-coloured above, with reddish-brown bands, viz. a 

 horseshoe -shaped band from eye to eye across the nape, two broad 

 transverse bands across the back, and three round the tail ; these 

 bands are as broad as the interspaces between them ; slight reddish 

 marblings on the lips and sides of neck ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 210 millim. 



Head 31 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 99 „ 



Fore limb 33 „ 



Hind limb 45 „ 



Tan ^. 80 „ 



West Africa, 

 a, 6. c? $• W. Africa. "■•.; 



2. EUBLEPHARIS. 



Eublepharis, Gray, Phil. Mag. (2) iii. 1827, p. 56, and Zool. Journ. 



iii. 1828, p. 223, and Cat. p. 170 ; Wagl. Syst. Amph. p. 143 ; 



Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 90; Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 119. 

 Gymnodactylus, part., Wiegm. Ilerp. Mex. p. 19. 



Digits with a row of lamellae inferiorly ; claw-sheaths small, the 

 claws only partially retractile. 



Southern Asia j Central America ; southern North America. 



