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UROPLATIDjE. 



2. Uroplates lineatus. 



Uroplates lineatus, Or ay, Cat. p. 152. 

 Ptyodactylus lineatus, Bum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 384, pi. xxxi. figs. 1-3 * ; 



A. Bum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 40. 

 Oiacurua (Lonchurus) lineatus, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 97. 



Differs from U. fimbriatus in the following characters : — Head 

 narrower ; interorbital space not concave ; upper eyelid with two 

 projecting spine-like scales. Limbs rather shorter, without cutaneous 

 fringe. A slight, not denticulated, dermal fold from axilla to groin. 

 About twenty-five upper and as many lower labials. Tail rounded, 

 bordered by a narrower membrane, narrowing posteriorly. Head 

 and back with five or six parallel blackish longitudinal lines. 



Madagascar, 



3. Uroplates ebenaui. 



Uroplates ebenaui, Boettger, Abh. Senck. Ges. xi. 1878, p. 273, pi. i. 



fig. 1. / 

 boettgeri, Fischer, Jahresb. Naturh. Mus. Hamb. f. 1883, p. 33, 



pi. iii. fig. 9. 



Head large, very convex posteriorly ; snout not much longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening ; latter very small. 

 Body not depressed. Limbs shorter, and interdigital web less deve- 

 loped than in U. fimbriatus. Upper surfaces with small granular 

 scales and soft spine-like scales or lobes, the largest of which are 

 at the posterior corner of the upper eyelid, a pair on each side on the 

 posterior border of the head, and one at the knee. Tail not longer 

 than the head, with a dermal lobe or a series of spine-like scales on 

 each side^ Light brownish grey above, with darker markings ; the 

 spines and oblique lines on the back and limbs white. 



Total length 6 2-5 millim. 



Head 17 „ 



Width of head 13 



Body 30 



Tail 15-5 „ 



Nossi Be. 



* The figures represent the digits nearly free, whiUt the description says 

 " Pattes demi-palmees." 



