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scales; under the ears, scales small, granular, smooth ; of the tail 
elongate, keeled. 
Hab. South-Eastern Africa (Dr. 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 
cylindrical, tapering; front of the vent granular. Labial shields 
large, in form equal, smaller behind, with a large shield in front of 
the chin. 
This genus agrees with T'ecadactylus in the form of the plate 
beneath the toes ; but the toes are freer, and the bases of the toes are 
slender and subcylindrical. It differs from @dura and Strophura 
in the plates under the toes being of a uniform size, and closely im- 
bricate. 
LYGODACTYLUS STRIGATUS, sp. nov. 
Grey brown (in spirits) above; crown vermiculated and marbled 
with black ; chin and beneath white, with a black streak commencing 
from the nostril and continued, enclosing the eye, on the side of the 
neck and front of the body ; tail pale brown; scales on the back 
very minute, of the crown rather larger ; upper labial shields narrow ; 
the lower labial shields 7.7, the four in front of each side larger, be- 
coming gradually smaller; chin-shield six-sided, with two or three 
smaller shields on each side behind it. 
Hab. South-Eastern Africa (Dr. Kirk). 
Body and head 14 inch long; tail 1 inch. 
HomopactTy vs, n. g. 
The toes free, broad, depressed, rather broader and rounded at the 
ends ; thumb broad like the toes; all granular at the base, and with 
a single series of broad transverse plates beneath the dilated end, and 
without any free compressed terminal joints or claws. Back with 
large tubercles. Tail with rings of large tubercular scales. No pre- 
anal nor femoral pores. 
This genus is like Phelsuma in the form of the toes ; but the thumb 
is dilated at the end like the toes; the back is tubercular, and the 
tail ringed and tubercular. 
In the latter character it resembles Tarentola, which has the same 
habit of living in houses; but it has no compressed joints on the 
middle toes of the hands and feet. 
HoMODACTYLUS TURNERI, sp.nov. (Pl. IX. fig. 2.) 
Pale brown ; head blackish, tubercular; back with sixteen longi- 
tudinal series of large oblong, more or less keeled, black. brown tuber- 
cles, with a central series of much smaller similar tubercles down the 
