726 MR. G. A. BOFLENGER ON ADDITIONS TO THE LIZAED [Dec. 4, 



II. Descriptions of new Species. 



(Edura nivaria. (Plate XL VII. fig. 1.) 



Head moderate, much depressed, oviform ; snout as long as tbe 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half the 

 diameter of the orbit; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Head 

 covered with small, round, convex granules, largest on the snout ; 

 rostral twice as broad as deep, without cleft ; nostril between five 

 scales, the upper largest and separated from its fellow by a granule ; 

 eight or nine upper and as many lower labials ; mental and ante- 

 rior lower labials followed by small flat shields, gradually passing 

 into the small granules of the throat. Back covered with uniform 

 granules, as large as those on the snout ; ventral scales larger, 

 subimbricate, smooth. Digits strongly dilated, the basal portion 

 not quite so broad as the distal expansion ; two pairs of large 

 plates at the extremity of the basal portion, followed by smaller 

 single plates. Male with a curved series of 15 praeanal pores. 

 Tail slightly longer thau head and body, depressed, tapering to a 

 fine point, its basal portion divided into distinct segments composed 

 of six transverse series of scales above and five beneath. Pale 

 brown above, mottled with darker and with undulous dark brown 

 transverse bands ; tail above with blackish transverse spots and" 

 with wbitish annuli in its distal half. 



millim. millim. 



Total length 118 Pore limb 20 



Head 15 Hind limb 25 



Width of head.... 13 Tail 62 



Body 41 



A single male specimen, captured on the snow on the Drakens- 

 berg Eange, JNatal (see above, p. 608). Presented by Mr. E. T. 



Lewis. 



Elashodactyltjs, g. n. Geckonidarum. 



Digits strongly dilated, free, with transverse undivided lamellae 

 below ; all digits with a minute claw fitting in a notch of the distal 

 lamella. Body covered with unequal-sized juxtaposed tubercles. 

 Pupil vertical. 



In its digital structure this new form approaches Rlioptropus, 

 Peters ( = Daciychilikion, Thominot 1 ), and to a certain extent 

 bridges over the gap separating the latter from Gecko. But it 

 is well distinguished from Iihoptropus by the shorter digits ex- 

 panding more gradually towards the end, the incomplete palpebral 

 ring, and tbe dorsal lepidosis. 



1 One of the principal characters on which Dactychilihion was founded, viz. 

 the hair-like fringe of the subdigital lamellae, is common to all Geckos and more 

 or less easily visible when the outer layer of the epidermis has been removed. 

 These cuticular hairs were first noticed in the Geckos by Cartier, Arb. Zool. 

 Inst. Wiirzb. i. 1872, p. 8G, in the Anoles by M. Braun, op. cit. \. 1879, p. 31. 



