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some day be found there. While none of these lizards were 

 secured at Banks Bay, Albemarle Island, two eggs collected 

 there attest their presence. These eggs were taken, April 

 14, 1906, from holes in mangrove trees growing on the beach. 

 They were about ten feet above the ground, and measure 

 10.3X8.5 and 10.5X8.6 mm. Other eggs, secured under 

 stones at Iguana Cove, March 21, 1906, measure 9.9X8.4, 

 10X8, 10.4X7.7, and 10.7X8.2 mm. It will be seen that these 

 eggs are larger than those of P. leei. They are elliptical, with 

 thin, white, limy shells, which appear as though covered with a 

 multitude of minute, crossed, more or less parallel scratches 

 or rows of minute granules. 



Phyllodactylus galapagoensis daphnensis, new subspecies. 

 Daphne Island Gecko. 



Diagnosis. — Limbs without enlarged tubercles; back with 

 distinct rows of enlarged tubercles, five rows on each side ; no 

 median series of broad subcaudals; large dorsal tubercles set 

 close together in the rows, or separated by not more than 

 diameter of one granule; tubercles of dorsal rows not contin- 

 ued on neck anterior to insertion of forelimbs; snout longer; 

 few enlarged tubercles on top of head. 



Type. — California Academy of Sciences No. 10539. Daphne 

 Island, Galapagos Archipelago. J. R. Slevin. Nov. 23, 1905. 



Material. — Eight specimens are in the collection of the 

 Academy. 



Description and Variation. — The description of P. galapago- 

 ensis applies in general, and a statement of variation is included 

 under that head. 



General remarks. — It was a surprise to find that the gecko 

 of Daphne differed so markedly from that of Indefatigable 

 and James. I had been inclined to regard Daphne as an outly- 

 ing rock recently separated from Indefatigable, as the Sey- 

 mours doubtless have been. The differentiation of this gecko, 

 however, indicates a separate insular existence through a con- 

 siderable period of time. 



Mr. Slevin states : "Nov. 23, 1905. — I caught several geckos 

 under old dead cactus on the inner slope of the crater, near the 

 top." 



