122 eEOKONIDjB. 



6. Hemidactylus mabouia. 



Hemidactylus mabouia, Ch-ay, Cat. p. 154. 

 Hemidactylus mercatprius, Oray, I. c. p. 155, 



Gecko mabouia, Moreau de Jonnhs, Bull. Soc. PhUom. 1818, p. 138; 

 Ctiv. R. A. ii, p. 54. 



tuberoulosus, Raddi, Mem. Soc. Modena, xix. 1823, p. 63. 



aculeatus, Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. p. 16, pi. xviii. fig. 3. 



cruciger, Spix, I. c. p. 16. 



Thecadaotylus pollicaris, Spix, I. c. p. 17, pi. sviii. fig. 2. 



Gecko ineanesoena, Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. p. 102. 



armatus, Wied, I. e. p. 104. 



Hemidactylus mabouia, Dum. Sf Bibr. iii. p. 363 ; Quicken, in 

 Casteln. Amer. Sud, Ilept. p. 12 ; Bianconi, Spec. Zool. Mossamb. 

 p. 21, pi. i. f. 1 ; Girard, U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 283, 

 pi. XXV. figs. 9-16 ; Boettger, Abh. Sench. Oes. xi. 1879, p. 478, & 

 xii. 1881, p. 467 ; Peters, Meise n. Mossamb. iii. p. 27. pi. v. fig. 3. 



mercatorius, Oray, Zool. Misc. p. 58 ; Boettger, Abh. Sench. 



Ges. xi. 1877, p. 23, pi. i. fig. 4. 



(Tacbybates) mabuya, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 106. 



( ) armatus, Fitzing. I. c. 



platycepbalus, Peters, Man. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 615; Bocage, 



Jam. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 309. 



bexaspis. Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 320. 



tuberculosus, Peters, eod. loc. 1877, p. 414. 



frenatus {non D. ^ B.), Boeitg. eod. loc. 1878, p. 275, pl.i. fig. 1. 



Snout considerably longer than tbe distance between the eye and 

 the ear-opening, once and a half to once and two thirds the diameter 

 of the orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, half or 

 two fifths the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. 

 Digits free, moderately dilated, inner well developed; five or six 

 lamellEB under the inner digits, and seven to nine under the median 

 ones. Snout covered with small convex granules ; hinder part of 

 head with minute granules intermixed with round tubercles ; 

 rostral four-sided, nearly twice as broad as high, with median 

 cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, 

 and three or four nasals ; ten to fourteen upper and nine or ten 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular ; two or three pairs of chin- 

 shields, median largest and in contact behind the point of the mental. 

 Upper surface of body covered with small granules intermixed with 

 small, irregularly scattered, convex or subtrihedral tubercles Abdo- 

 minal scales small, cycloid, imbricate. Male with a long uninter- 

 rupted series of femoral pores, fifteen to thirty on each side. Tail 

 cylindrical, feebly depressed, covered above with very small scales 

 intermixed with large conical tubercles in six longitudinal series ; 

 inferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 or light brown above, with dark spots or undulated cross bands ; 

 white beneath. 



Total length 166 millim. 



Head 22 „ 



Width of head 17 „ 



Body 59 „ 



