13. eoNATODBs. 69 



1. Gonatodes all)Ogxilaris. 



Goniodactylus albogulaiis, Qray, Cat. p. 172. 

 G}ymnodactylus albogularis, Dum. §• Bihr. iii. p. 415 ; Cocteaw, in H. 



de la Sagra, ffist. Cuba, Hept. p. 174, pi. xix. ; Steindachn. Novara, 



Sept. p. 16. 

 Gonatodes albigularis, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 91. 

 ? Gymnodaotylus notatus, Reinh. ^ lliik. Vidensh. Meddel. 1862, 



p. 280. 

 Gymnodactylua maciilatus, Steindachn. I. c. pi. i. fig. 4. 



Head small, high ; snout obtusely pointed, short, measuring the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, little longer than the 

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead not concave : ear-opening small, 

 oval. Body and Umbs moderate ; digits slender, narrow at the base, 

 the scales under the basal joint small, subequal. Upper parts 

 covered with small granules, largest on the snout. Kostral penta- 

 gonal, nearly twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral and three or four nasals ; five or 

 six upper and four or five lower labials ; mental very large, truncate 

 behind, in contact with two or three small chin-shields followed by 

 others passing gradually into the minute granules of the gular region. 

 Abdominal scales rather large, flat, hexagonal, imbricate. Tail 

 cylindrical, tapering, covered above with uniform small round 

 slightly imbricate scales, inferiorly with larger scales, those of the 

 median series transversely dilated. Males grey-brown above, un- 

 spotted ; throat pure white, bordered on each side by a broad 

 dark blue band ; a white or pale blue, black-edged, vertical line in 

 front of the fore limb ; a broad black (steel-blue ?) band of each 

 side of the belly, the lower part of which, as well as the lower 

 surface of the thighs, is bright yellow. Females grey-brown above, 

 with small darker spots ; the white line in front of the , shoulder 

 more or less distinct; frequently a lighter vertebral band; lower 

 surfaces whitish. Toung white-spotted. 



Total length 76 millim. 



Head 9 „ 



Width of head 6 „ 



Body 23 „ 



Fore limb 13 „ 



Hind limb 16 „ 



TaU 44 „ 



"West Indies. 

 a. Hgr. Rio S. Juan, Cuba. 



h-c. 5 . Jamaica. 



d-i.d2- — ■ 

 Jcr-l. Yg. ? 



Var. fnscus. 



Stenodactylus fusous, Sallow. Journ. Ac. Philad. (2) iii. 1855, p. S3. 

 Gymnodaotylus fusous, A. Bum. Arch. Mus. viii. p. 477 ; Bocourt, 

 Miss. Se. Max., Rept. p. 48, pi. x. fig. 5. 



