48G ]\Ir, G. A. Boulenger on 



II, First antennsB oblique or vertical, separated 

 by a broad septum. Front narrow. Body 

 deep. 



1. Body subquadrilateral. Openings fringed 



with hairs between the bases of the third 



and fourth pairs of legs Ocypodinre. 



2. Body more or less globose. No openings 



between the legs Mydirina:. 



LV. — Descriptions of new Lizards in the British Museum. 

 By G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S. 



Gecko pal mat us. 



Head large, oviform, much depressed ; snout a little longer 

 than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once 

 and one third tlie diameter of the orbit ; foreliead concave ; 

 ear-opening oval, oblique, its greatest diameter about one 

 third that of the orbit. Body and limbs moderately elon- 

 gate ; digits strongly dilated, half- webbed. Snout and 

 supraocular region covered with very small granules, the 

 granules minute on the rest of the head; rostral and first 

 labial entering the nostril ; 11 upper and 10 lower labials ; 

 eymphysial triangular, followed by a pair of chin-shields 

 which are three times as long as broad. Body and limbs 

 covered with minute granules ; back with scattered, enlarged, 

 round, flat tubercles, which are about as large as the feebly 

 imbricate ventral scales. Greyish above, mottled with 

 brown, and with brown markings, viz. a dark streak from 

 the eye to the ear and three wavy cross-bars on the body ; 

 lower parts white, dotted with brown. 



mm. 



Total length 150 



Head 22 



Width of head 17 



Body 58 



Fore limb 27 



Hind limb 36 



Tail (reproduced) 70 



A single female specimen from the Man Son Mountains^ 

 Tonkin, altitude 3000-4000 feet, collected by Mr. Fruhstorfer. 



Prionodactylus Ockendem. 



Snout short ; nostril between two nasals ; fronto-nasal 

 single; prsefrontals forming a median suture; interparietal 

 narrower than the parietals ; two rows of occipital.^, three in 



