16. PHYMODACTYLUS. 93 



Total length 59 miUim. 



Head 8 „ 



Width of head 6 „ 



Body 22 „ 



Fore limb 9-5 „ 



Hind limb 12 „ 



Tail 29 „ 



South Africa. 



a-b. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Lord Derby [P.]. (Types.) 



c-i. Ad. Cape of Good Hope. Sir A. Smith [P.], 



22. Phyllodactylus ocellatus. 



Diplodaetylus ocellatus, Gh-ay, Cat. p. 149. 



Diplodaotylus bilineatus, Gray, I. c. 

 Diplodaetylus ocellatus, Gray, Zool. Erehvs and Terror, pi. xv. fig. 4 ; 



Giinth. Ann. Sr Mag. K. S. (3) xx. 1867, p. 49. 

 biliaeatus, Gh-ay, I. c. pi. xv. fig. 3. 



Head oviform, much longer than broad ; snout rounded, slightly 

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

 about once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead not con- 

 cave ; ear-opening small, roundish or suboval. Body and limbs 

 moderate. Digits short, depressed ; digital expansions moderately 

 large, rounded, measuring about three fifths the diameter of the 

 eye ; three series of tubercles under the digits, central more dilated 

 transversely. Head covered with granular scales, a little larger on 

 the snout; rostral four-sided, twice as'broad as high, with trace 

 of median cleft above'; nostril pierced between the rostral, the 

 first labial, and four nasals, the anterior dilated transversely, the 

 others very smaE. ; seven or eight upper and as many lower labials ; 

 mental small, trapezoid, narrower than the adjacent labials ; no 

 chin-shields. Back covered with uniform, slightly keeled, granular 

 scales, about the size of the granules on the snout ; abdominal 

 scales moderate, roundish, smooth, imbricate. Tail cylindrical, 

 prehensile, covered with irregular smooth scales arranged in rings. 

 Grey-brown above, variegated with darker and with more or less 

 distinct light ocelli, arranged in two rows on the back ; sometimes 

 a light streak on each side of the head and back ; lower surfaces 

 dirty white, more or less scantily brown-dotted. 



Total length 58 millim. 



Head 9 „ 



Width of head 6-5 „ 



Body 23 „ 



Fore limb 9 „ 



Hiad limb 11 „ 



TaH 21 „ 



West Australia. 



