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or body ; scales on belly large, cycloid, imbricate ; scales on the 

 tail arranged in transverse series, larger below than above, all 

 larger than those on body; annulations indistinctly marked by 

 series of slightly enlarged scales; scales on regenerated portion 

 of the tail irregular and no annulations marked; a continuous 

 series of twenty-four preanal and femoral scales in the preanal 

 region, forming an angle medially ; limbs moderately long, meet- 

 ing when adpressed; digits well developed; inner toe long, well 

 developed, lacking terminal digit and claw ; third and fourth toes 

 nearly equal; digits widened at ends, rather slender proximally, 

 only a slight trace of web present ; nine lamellse under inner toe, 

 the first single, the four following divided, last four narrower, 

 rather scalelike; twelve under fourth toe, first four divided fol- 

 lowed by three broad undivided lamellse, these in turn followed 

 by five scalelike lamellse on the proximal portion of digit, not 

 extending to the base. Eye large, distinctly nearer ear than 

 snout, its diameter about one and one-half times in its distance 

 from snout; ear opening very small, somewhat larger than 

 nostril; tail rather cylindrical, noticeably flattened above and 

 below, with a slight medial depression above and below; no 

 lateral fringe, but the scales on the outer edge slightly raised. 



Color in life. — Above gray with variegated scales of brownish 

 and black and six black, irregular, zigzag lines across the back 

 with lighter color between them; one or two indistinct darker 

 lines across the snout and a few dark markings on occiput; a 

 distinct black line from the nostril through the eye, which con- 

 tinues above the ear to the foreleg; tail pinkish gray with a 

 series of dim transverse darker bars and a row of median black 

 spots ; also lateral rows of spots ; below nearly uniform yellowish 

 cream; labials with lighter spots. 



Measurements of Lepidodactylus woodfordi Boulenger. 



mm. 



Total length 71 



Snout to vent 35.5 



Axilla to groin 17.5 



Tail, tip regenerated 35.5 

 Length of head 9.5 



Width of head 7 



Foreleg 9.5 



Hind leg 14.5 



Variation. — The seventeen specimens at hand show compara- 

 tively little variation ; the number of pores or pore scales varies 

 between twenty-one and twenty-five, the average being twenty- 

 three. Occasionally they form a broad angle medially, but 



