380 Zoological Society : — 



C. ridibundus, but cannot be confounded with that or any other 

 species, the broad black mark in the centre of its first two primaries, 

 together with its larger size, serving at once to distinguish it. It was 

 brought from Tibet by Major W. E. Hay, F.Z.S. 



Notes on some New Lizards from South-Eastern Africa, 

 WITH the Descriptions of several New Species. By 

 Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., etc. 



Dr. John Kirk has most kindly sent to the British Museum a 

 series of Lizards, Snakes, Insects, and other animals collected during 

 the Zambesi expedition, under H. M. Consul the Rev. Dr. Living- 

 stone. As the series of Lizards contains some species which do not 

 appear to have been previously inserted in the ' Systematic Cata- 

 logue,' I forward an account of them to the Society. 



Gerrhosaurus robustus, Peters, Monatsb. 1854, p. 618. 



nab. Tette {Peters; Br. Kirk). 



Dr. Peters gives the word Caaiia as the name of this Lizard ; 

 but. Dr. Kirk informs me, that word simply means " I do not know," 

 which was probably what the native said when he asked him what 

 they called it. 



Common near Tette. The native told Dr Kirk that it entered 

 fowl-houses and killed the fowls, and that it bit very hard. 



This species agrees in general appearance with the Lizard figured 

 in Dr. Andrew Smith's ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa,' 

 under the name of Gerrhosaurus Bibronii ; but the head of the Tette 

 specimen is dark brown like the body, and is spotted with white ; 

 while in Dr. Smith's species the head is figured as uniform red- 

 brown. 



Teira ornata, n. s. 



Blackish brown above (in spirits), with three narrow continuous 

 streaks from the occiput to the base of the tail ; head with small 

 symmetrically curved white lines ; sides of the head and body with 

 numerous erect, more or less sinuous, white cross bands ; chin and 

 beneath white ; tail pale reddish brown ; ventral shields six-rowed ; 

 the throat with a shght fold of a single series of rather larger flat 

 scales ; under the ears, scales small, granular, smooth ; of the tail 

 elongate, keeled. 



Hab. South-Eastern Africa {Br. Kirk). 



Lygodactylus, n. g. 



Toes free, all clawed, slender, and subcylindrical, with a series of 

 small scales beneath at the base rather dilated ovate, and with two 

 series of regular transverse plates, separated by a central groove be- 

 neath, at the end ; the thumb (of the hind foot, at least) large. 

 Head, body, and tail covered with uniform granular scales. Tail 

 cyhndrical, tapering ; front of the vent granular. Labial shields 

 large, similar in form, smaller behind, with a large shield in front of 

 the chin. 



This genus agrees with Thecadactylus in the form of the plate 



