82 GECKONTD^. 



culous. Length of head to angle of mandible 8 lines ; from this 

 point to vent 1 inch 9 lines ; of hiader extremity 1 inch ; tail ? 

 Above pale yellowish ; a dark brown line from orbit to shoulder ; 

 dark brown longitudinal lines, which inosculate on the nape and 

 anterior dorsal region ; on the posterior dorsal and sacral they form 

 cross bands. Extremities banded. Beneath immaculate." 

 Barbadoes. 



6. Phyllodactylus galapagoensis. 



Phyllodactylus galapagensis, Peters, Mm. Berl. Ac. 1869, p. 720. 



Head oval, much longer than broad; snout rounded, a little 

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

 and one third the diameter of the ear-opening ; forehead slightly 

 concave ; ear-opening narrow, vertical. Body and limbs moderate. 

 Basal part of the digits moderately depressed, with transverse 

 lamellse inferiorly; digital expansions not much wider, rounded. 

 Snout covered with large granular scales ; hinder part of head with 

 minute granules, among which larger ones are scattered. Eostral 

 subpentagonal, twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; 

 seven upper and six lower labials ; mental large, pentagonal, in 

 contact with two chin-shields, which are followed by smaller ones 

 passing gradually into the minute granules of the throat. Back 

 covered with minute granules ; small keeled tubercles form six very 

 regular longitudinal series on each side of the vertebral line, this 

 arrangement resembling that seen in Qymnodactylus pelagicm. 

 Belly with small inlbrieate smooth scales. Tail cyhndrical, tapering, 

 covered with smooth imbricate scales, larger inferiorly but not 

 forming a regular median series. Grey-brown above, with darker 

 markings ; a rather indistinct dark streak on the side of the head, 

 passing through the eye ; tail with dark annuli abdve ; lower surfaces 

 brownish white. 



Total length 74 millim. 



Head 10 „ 



Width of head 6 „ 



Body 24 „ 



Eore limb 11 „ 



Hind limb 13 „ 



Tail 40 „ 



Galapagos Islands. 



0-6. Ad. ? Charles Island. Commander Cookson [P.], 



7. Phyllodactylus nigrofasciatus. 



Phyllodactylus mgrofasciatus, Cope, Proa. Amer. Philos. 8oc xvii. 

 1877, p. 86. 



" The large dermal tubercles are not prominent nor angular, nor 



