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a thin and short border, which is irregularly incised ; this species becomes 

 still larger than Platydactylus guttatus, and attains a length of 10"; it occurs 

 at Madagascar. 



Sphceriodactylus Cuv. Toes slender, dilated towards the ex- 

 tremity, with cushion not folded. Femoral pores none. 



Phyllodactylw GRAY, WIEGM. Toes all unguiculate, furnished under the 

 dilated extremity with two squamiform, smooth cushions. Sp. Sphcerio- 

 dactylus porphyreus Cuv., Gecko porphyreus BAUD., MERB. ; from Southern 

 Africa. 



Diplodactylus GRAY, WIEGM. All the unguiculate toes supplied under 

 the scarcely dilated extremity with two oval cushions, carnoso-papillose. 



Sphceriodactylus GRAY, WIEGM. All the toes unarmed, dilated into an 

 apical, subrotund cushion. 



Sp. Spfueriodactylus sputator Cuv., Anolis sputator DAUD., LAC. Quadr. ovip. 

 I. PI. 28. (A very small species, only 2'' long, with dark-brown transverse 

 stripes on the back, from St Domingo.) 



Stenodactylus FITZ., Cuv., mihi, (add. Gymnodactylus SPIX, 

 Cuv., Gonyodactylus KUHL, PhyUurus Cuv.). Toes simple, 

 slender, all unguiculate. 



Stenodactylus Cuv., FITZ. Toes denticulate at the margin with 

 sharp scales. Femoral pores none. 



Sp. Stenodactylus elegans FITZ., Stenodactylus guttatus Cuv., Descr. de VEgypte, 

 Rept. PI. v. fig. 2. 



Gymnodactylus SPIX, (add. Phyllurus Cuv.). Toes with margin 

 entire, often elongate, geniculate. Femoral pores mostly none. 



Sp. Stenodactylus scaber RUEPPELL, Ad. zu der Reise im nordl. Afr., Rept. 

 Tab. iv. fig. 2, &c. 



There is a species with tail leaf-shaped, compressed, becoming narrow 

 towards the extremity, and with long curved toes, which is found in New 

 Holland : Stenodactylus phyllurus, Phyllurus platurus Cuv., Lacerla pla- 

 tura WHITE, Journ. of a Voyage to New South Wales, PI. 32, fig. 2, GUERIN 

 Iconogr., Rept. PL 14, fig. i, Cuv. R. Ani., ed. ill., Rept. PL 20 Us, fig. 2; 

 it is coloured greyish-black above and covered with many spinose tubercles. 



TRIBE II. Loricati. 



Maxillary teeth conical, received into sockets at their base. 

 Slit of cloaca oblong. Penis single. Body covered above with 

 large scutes tuberculate or carinate. 



