90 GBCKONIDJE. 



18. Phyllodactylus guentheri. (Plate VII, fig. 3.) 



Head oviform, mueh. longer than broad ; snout rounded, as long 

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

 half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead slightly concave ; ear-open- 

 ing large, oval, oblique, measuring two thirds or three fourths the 

 diameter of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. Digits rather 

 elongate ; the claw more raised above the digit and more exposed 

 than in the other species of the genus, resembling the structure in 

 Geclco ; the slender part of the digits slightly dilated, with regular 

 transverse lamellae inferiorly, which are broken up into small scales 

 some distance in front of the distal expansion ; ten or eleven 

 entire lamelte under the fourth toe; digital expansion small, 

 roundish, measuring about three fifths the diameter of the eye. 

 Upper surfaces covered with uniform granular scales, extremely 

 minute on the back, larger on the snout and limbs. Eostral four- 

 sided, twice as broad as high, without cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 just above the suture of the rostral and first labial, between both 

 the latter and four small nasals ; seven or eight upper and as 

 many lower labials ; mental trapezoid, not larger than the adjacent 

 labials ; no regular chin-shields, but small polygonal scales passing 

 gradually into the minute granules of the gular region. Abdominal 

 scales small, smooth, roundish hexagonal, slightly imbricate. Tail 

 cylindrical, tapering, covered with uniform smaU smooth scales, a 

 little larger inferiorly. Light reddish brown above ; rather indi- 

 stinct transverse dark markings on the back, interrupted on the 

 vertebral line, which is sometimes lighter ; lower surfaces brownish 

 white, speckled with brown. 



Total length (tail mutilated) 110 millim. 



Head 23 



Width of head 18 



Body 66 



Fore Umb 31 



Hind limb 38 



Australia. 



a-c. Ad. Norfolk Island. F. M. Rayner, Esq. [0.1. 



rf. Hgr. Lord Howe's Island. Voy. of the ' Herald.' 



B. Ad. Champion Bay, N.W. Mr. Duboulay [0.]. 



coast of Australia. 



19. Phyllodactylns europaBus. 



PhyUodactylus europeeus, GenS, Mem. Ac. Tor. (2) 1839, i. p. 263, 

 pi. i. fig. 1 ; Bonap. Faun. Ital., and Amph. 'Eur. ^.2Q; A. Bum. Cat. 

 MHh. Bept. p. 41, and Arch. Mus. viii. p. 455 ; De Betta, Faun. 

 Ital, Rett. Anf. p. 21 ; Schreiber, Serp. Fur. p. 485 ; Lataste, 



