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5. EURYDACTYLUS, SauTagc. 



13. EuRYDACTYLUs viEiLLARDi. (Plate XXII. figs. 7, 7 «, 7 6.) 

 *Platydactylus vieillardi, Bavay, Cat. p. 10. 



*Eurydectijlus viellardi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7)iii. p- 70. 

 Head not depressed, much longer than broad; snout long, obtuse, 



with slightly distinct canthus rostralis and scarcely oblique loreal 

 region, measuring nearly twice the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening, or once and three fourths the diameter of the orbit ; 

 pupil vertical, not round as stated by Bavay ; ear-opening minute, 

 horizontal. Body slightly compressed, the back keeled. Limbs 

 short, digits strongly dilated, free. Scales of upper surfaces large, 

 separated by intervals forming reticulated lines, much like crocodile- 

 skin ; the shields on the head larger, subsymmetrically arranged. 

 Rostral twice as broad as high, with distinct median division above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial and two nasals ; 

 ten upper and nine lower labials ; mental small, triangular, the 

 adjacent labials meeting behind ; a few irregular chin-shields. Throat 

 covered with small graiiules, with two strong transverse and two 

 longitudinal folds. Belly covered with rather large flat granules. 

 [Male with a triangular patch of about fifty praeanal pores']. Tail 

 cyhndrical, preheusive, covei'jd with squarish juxtaposed scales 

 arranged in verticils. Upper surfaces reddish-yellow ; the inter- 

 spaces between the scales forming blackish reticulated lines ; lower 

 surfaces uniform vshitish. 



millim. 



Total length 91 



Head 1 .5 



Width of head 9 



Body : 39 



Fore limb 14 



Hind hmb 18 



Tail 37 



Described from a female specimen in the Paris Museum. 



6. Gymnodactylus, Spix. 



14. Gymnodactylus arnouxi. (Plate XXII. figs. 8, 8 «.) 

 Gymnodactylus arnouxii, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Rept. ]). 44, and 



Arch. Mus. viii. p. 479, pi. 17. f. 5 ; *Bavay, Cat. p. 13 : Peters & 

 Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xii. p. 372. 



Heteronota pelagica, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 197, and 

 U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 306. 



Gymnodactylus girardi, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 15, pi. 2. f. 3. 



Gymnodactylus multicarinatus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x. 

 1872, p. 421, and in Brenchley, Cura^oa, p. 404, j)l. 24. i". A. 



Gymnodactylus {Heteronota) arfakianus, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 

 1874, p. 129. 



Head rather large, oviform ; snout a little longer than the distance 



' Bavnv, I. c. 



