29. SPATHOSCALABOIES. — 30. MICKOSCAIABOTES. 157 



clawed terminal phalange projecting considerably beyond the discoid 

 dilatation. Upper surfaces covered with juxtaposed granular scales ; 

 lower surfaces with imbricate scales. Pupil vertical. 

 East-Indian archipelago. 



1. Spathoscalabotes mutilatus. (Plate XIII. fig. 1.) 

 Spathodactylus mutilatus, Giinth. I. c. 



Head regularly oviform, much longer than broad ; snout as long 

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

 half the diameter of the eye ; ear-opening very small, oval, oblique. 

 Rostral broad, subpentagonal ; nostril piercpd between the rostral, 

 the first labial, and three small nasals ; eleven upper and as many 

 lower labials ; mental smaU, subtriangular ; no chin-shields. Body 

 elongate. Scales of upper surfaces small, granular, not larger on 

 the snout; abdominal scales small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth. 

 Digits, especially fingers, very unequal, free ; inner rudimentary, 

 tubercle-like ; four pairs of lamellse under the other digits. Tail 

 subcylindrical, slender, covered with small equal scales. Brown, 

 finely marbled with darker ; a dark streak from the tip of the snout 

 to the shoulder, passing through the eye ; a series of round whitish 

 spots commences behind the eye, and is continued along each side of 

 the back to the tail ; lower parts whitish, finely speckled with brown. 



Total length 82 miUim. 



Head 10 



Width of head 6-5 



Body 34 



Fore limb 11 



Hind limb 15 



Tail 38 



East-Indian archipelago. 

 a. $. Dr.Bleeker. (Type.) 



30. MICROSCALABOTES. 



Microscalabotes, Bmleng. Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) zi. 1883, p. 174. 



Digits of very unequal size, free, slender at the base, strongly 

 dilated at the end, with free distal clawed phalange; thumbs 

 rudimentary, not dilated, with strong, very distinct claw; the 

 digital dilatations bearing inferiorly two series of regular oblique 

 lamellse, separated by a median groove. Upper surfaces covered 

 with juxtaposed granular scales; lower surfaces with imbricate 

 scales. Pupil round. Eyelid distinct all round the eye. Males with 

 preeanal pores. 



Madagascar, 



