no MR. G-. A. BOULENGEE ON THE EEPTILES 



4. Gymnodactylus, Spix, 1825. 



Digits not dilated, clawed, not denticulated, cylindrical or depressed at the base, 

 compressed in the distal portion, which forms an angle with the basal ; inferiorly with 

 a series of smooth lam ellye. Dorsal scales juxtaposed. Pupil vertical. Males usually 

 with femoral or prajanal pores. 



This large genus is represented in Barbary by a single species from South-western 

 Morocco. 



1. Gymnodactylus traciiyblepharus, Boettger, 1874. 



Head much depressed ; snout rounded, a little longer than the distance between the 

 eye and the ear-opening ; latter transversely oval. Limbs rather slender ; digits elon- 

 oate. depressed in the basal, compressed in the distal portion. Above uniformly and 

 finely o-ranular, the granules largest on the snout ; upper eyelid with several pro- 

 iectino- tiiangular scales on its free border; rostral pentagonal, nearly twice as broad as 

 deep, with median cleft above ; nostril between the rostral, the first labial, and four 

 nasals ; seven upper and six lower labials ; mental large, subtriangulav ; no regular 

 chin-shields. Ventral scales large, hexagonal, subimbricate. Tail slender, depressed, 

 covered above with uniform small scales, beneath with a median series of enlarged 

 transverse plates. Greyish olive above, whitish beneath ; tail with rather indistinct 

 yellowish cross-bands. 



From snout to vent 40 millim., tail 57. 



A single specimen is kn(nvn, from Djebel Hadid, near Mogador, which, thanks to 

 Dr. Boettger's courtesy, I have been able to examine. 



Figured by Boettger, Abh. Senck. Ges. ix. 1874, pi. i. fig. 3. 



5. PiiYLLODACTYLUs, Gray, 1830. 



Digits all clawed, the extremity dilated, with two large plates inferiorly separated by 

 a longitudinal groove in which the claw is retractile. Pupil vertical. No prseanal or 

 femoral pores. 



1. Phyllodactylus EUROP..EUS, Gene, 1839. 



Upper surfaces covered with equal small smooth granules ; no regular chin-shields, 

 but very small polygonal scales passing gradually into the minute granules of the 

 throat. Tail prehensile, covered with equal small squarish scales. Grey-brown above, 

 marbled with darker and dotted with lighter ; a more or less distinctly marked dark 

 streak on the side of the head, passing through the eye ; lower parts whitish. 



From snout to vent 40 millim., tail 30. 



This small Gecko inhabits many of the Islands of the Mediterranean west of Italy, 

 and was found on Galita by Marquis Doria. 



Figured in Bonaparte's 'Fauna Italica.' 



