102 fiECKONJD.l!. 



6. Diplodactylus steiadachneri. (Plate VIII. fig. 5.) 



Head short, very convex ; snout rounded-acuminate, longer than 

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

 than the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening smaU, round. Body 

 short ; Umhs moderate. Digits rather short, not much depressed, 

 inferiorly with small, irregularly arranged tubercles ; apical dilata- 

 tion small, the inferior plates rounded. Upper surfaces covered 

 with minute granular scales, a little larger on the snout. Eostral 

 twice as broad as high, without median cleft, emarginate poste- 

 riorly to receive a small lozenge-shaped plate bounded posteriorly 

 by the large supero-anterior nasals ; latter in contact ; nostril 

 pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and five nasals ; eleven 

 upper and as many lower labials ; mental trapezoid, moderate ; no 

 chin-shields. Border of the upper eyelid with a fringe of conical 

 scales. Abdominal scales very small, granular, considerably larger 

 than the dorsal granules. Male with two conical scales on each 

 side the base of the tail. Light brown above ; a broad lighter, 

 black-edged vertebral line, bifurcating on the neck, where it encloses 

 a large rhomboidal black-edged spot ; three black-edged ocelli on 

 the light vertebral band, two on the back, one on the base of the 

 tail ; a whitish, dark-edged streak from axilla to groin ; sides with 

 small light spots ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 60 mOlim. 



Head 13 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 30 „ 



Fore limb 16 „ 



Hind limb 21-,5 „ 



Tail (reproduced) 17 „ 



New South Wales. 



(•■ d ■ Sydney. Museum Godeflfroy. 



7. Diplodactylus pulcher. 



Stenodactylopsis pulcher, Steindachn. Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixii i 1870 

 p. 343, pi. ii. figs. .3-5. 



Head short, very convex ; snout acutely pointed, longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and one third 

 the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening minute. Body moderate ; 

 limbs rather long, slender. Digits not much depressed, inferiorly 

 with small round tubercles ; the apex not dilated, with two oval 

 plates inferiorly. Upper surfaces covered with small granular scales, 

 largest on the middle of the back. Eostral large, high, subpenta- 

 gonal, with emarginate posterior border, and trace of median cleft ; 

 nostril pierced between five or six nasals, the anterior and the 

 inferior larger ; a polj-gonal plate behind the rostral between the 

 nasals ; eleven or twelve upper and as many lower labials, the 



