166 Mr. G. A. Boulenger on 
black spots; a blackish line along each side of the tail; lower 
parts white, throat marbled with grey. 
millim 
DORI MOR OU, «5.0 + wacjeeeen de ates suede 60 
LGA Ge re. c w.cless cadetomrerers tera eccrine 8 
Waidthvot head's :.:. saceete cts coe one oe 5 
HOR Walalct hoes Meine sergeant bs serere 20 
Horevlimlly:A+/54,d.teo aeeeeeies laste cee 12 
Hand ‘limib): 33.2 ccidctee ee iae bas cater 18 
MGI cs he & Bis sooo, Sie NISC REST aR oreie e  oeral 32 
A single specimen. 
3. Hemidactylus jubensis, Blgr. 
4. Tarentola ephippiata, O’Shaughn. 
This Senegambian species is represented by three speci- 
mens, which differ from the type in having the three pairs 
of chin-shields in contact with the labials, as in one of the 
Senegambian specimens presented to the Museum by 
Sir A. Moloney. 
5. Holodactylus africanus, Bttgy. (Pl. VII. fig. 2.) 
This curious lizard was described by Prof. Boettger from 
an imperfectly preserved specimen from Abdallah, Somaliland, 
which he referred to the Geckonide in the neighbourhood of 
Ceramodactylus, Blanf. With the two well-preserved speci- 
mens of Mr. Lort-Phillips’s collection before me, I am able 
to state that Holodactylus belongs to the Eublepharida, as it 
possesses connivent eyelids, proccelous dorsal vertebrae 
without intercentra, and fused parietal bones. It comes so 
near the West-African Ps¢lodactylus, Gray, that one would 
hesitate to refer it to a distinct genus. But, as has been 
pointed out by Mr. Stejneger in 1893, the name Psilodactylus 
is preoccupied ; and the name proposed to replace it, Hemi- 
theconyax, Stejneger (May 31, 1893), being later than Holo- 
dactylus, Boettger (April 10, 1893), Holodactylus africanus 
will, at all events, have to be retained as the proper denomina- 
tion of the species here redescribed and figured. 
Snout short and very convex, as long as the distance 
between the orbit and the ear-opening; latter small, oval, 
oblique. Head and body covered with uniform minute 
granules, largest on the upper surface of the head; nostrils 
between a crescentic nasal and several small scales ; rostral 
twice as broad as deep, with short median cleft above, sepa- 
rated from the nostril by three series of granular scales; ten 
