478 ADDENDA AND CORRIQEXDA. 



a second across the nape, a third, very angular, over the shoulders, 

 the former two inclosinj? a crescent, the latter two a triangle, of the 

 ground-colour ; a pale ^-shaped mark on the rump ; many of the 

 larger tubercles, notably those of the curved line crossing the back, 

 white ; under surfaces white. 



3. Nephrurus platyurus. 



Nephrurus platym'us, Bouleng. Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. (5) xviii. 1886, 

 p. 91. 



Snout as long as the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening a vertical 

 slit, measuring two fifths the diameter of the orbit. Body and limbs 

 as in N. asper., but the palmar pads far less distinct. Vertex and 

 occiput with juxtaposed rough tubercles of subequal size ; only four 

 of these tubercles across the middle of the interorbital space ; snout 

 with smaller keeled granules ; loreal concavity minutely granulate ; 

 temples finely granulate, with equidistant, round, rough tubercles ; 

 upper eyelid without conical tubercles ; rostral as broad as mental ; 

 17 upper and as many lower labials. Body and limbs finely and 

 uniformly granulate inferiorly, more coarsely above, where the 

 granules are intermixed with numerous isolated conical tubercles ; 

 gular region granulate, with slightly enlarged tubercles on the sides. 

 Tail half as long as head and body, depressed, as broad as the body, 

 attenuated at the end, which bears a globular knob ; the upper sur- 

 face of the dilated portion of the tail with transverse series of conical 

 spinose tubercles ; 18 transverse grooves are distinct on the upper 

 and lateral surfaces of the tail ; lower surface uniformly and finely 

 granulate. Pale brownish above, with three angular brown cross 

 bars on the neck and shoulders, and three similar ones on the 

 sacrum, separated by narrower whitish interspaces : border of the 

 eye, and a spot in front of and another below the same, whitish ; a 

 brown horizontal spot in front of the eye, below the white spot ; 

 some of the enlarged dorsal and caudal tubercles whitish : lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



«. J. Adelaide. Rev. T. E. Lea [P.]. (Type.) 



