76 OBOKOlflDffli. 



Body 32 miUim. 



Fore limb 15 „ 



Hind Umb 22 „ 



TaU 56 „ 



Northern and Eastern Australia. 



a. 2 . Port Essington. Lord Derby [P.]. (Type.) 



h-c. $ . N. Auatralia. .1. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



d. S ■ Peak Downs. Godei&oy Museum. 



e. 2 . Rockhampton. 



f. cj. Queensland. 



g. c? . Australia. Sir J. Ricbardson [P.]. 



3. Heteronota? eboracensis. 



Heteronota eboracensis, Macleay, Proa. Linn. 8oc. N. S. W. ii, 1877, 

 p. 101. 



" Form ratber robust ; head broad ; tail much shorter than the 

 body ; intemasal shields rather short and not contiguous ; labials 

 nine upper and eight lower, the last two of each very small ; scales 

 mostly tricarinate ; tubercles on the back numerous and nearly 

 smooth ; scales on the tail all smooth ; colour, above speckled grey 

 and black ; legs and under surface pale with numerous minute black 

 dots. Length 3 inches." 



Cape York. 



16. PHYLLODACTYLUS *. 



Phyllodactylus, Oray, Spicil. Zool. 1830, p. 3; JFVfe. Syst. Eept. p. 94 ; 



Oray, Cat. p. 150. 

 Sphaerodactylua, part., Wagler, 8ys^ Amph. p. 143. 

 Phyllodactylus, part., Wiegm. Herp. Mex. p. 20 ; Bum. 8f Bihr. iii. 



p. 888. 

 Euleptes, Fitz. I. c. p. 95. 

 Discodactylus, Fitz. I. c. p. 95. 

 Diplodactylus, part., Wiegm. I. c. ; Fitz. I. c. p. 94; Gray, Cat. IA%. 



p. 148. 

 Paroedura, OiXnth. Ann. Sr Mag. JV. S. (5) iii. 1879, p. 218. 



Digits more or less slender, free, all clawed, with transverse 

 lamellae or tubercles inferiorly, the extremity more or less dilated, 

 with two largo plates inferiorly, separated by a longitudinal groove 

 in which the claw is retractile ; the distal expansion covered above 

 with scales strongly differentiated from those on the basal portion 

 of the digit. Upper surfaces covered with juxtaposed scales, uni- 

 form or intermixed with larger tubercles ; abdominal scales generally 

 imbricate. Pupil vertical. Males without preeanal nor femoral 

 pores. 



Tropical America ; Australia ; Africa ; islands of the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



* Phyllodaotylus amdroyetms, Grandid. Rev. Mag. Zool. jdx. 1867, p. 233.— 

 S.W. Madagascar. 



