194 



SECKONID*. 



orbit ; ear-opening suboval, oblique, its greatest diameter about half 

 that of the orbit. Body and limbs short, thick ; a groove along the 

 vertebral line ; digits short, not very unequal. Head covered with 

 small granular scales of irregular size ; nostril pierced between 

 eight or nine small scales ; rostral broad ; thirteen to sixteen upper 

 labials ; thirteen to fifteen infralabials ; mental small, narrow, not 

 longer than the neighbouring labials ; six or seven small chin- 

 shields on each side, inner pair elongate. Back and sides with 

 large, juxtaposed, mamilliform or conical tubercles, generally very 

 irregular in size ; the vertebral groove with small granules. Limbs 

 and throat granulate. Abdominal scales small, cycloid, imbricate, 

 smooth. Prseanal pores in a Vi^y-shaped line, twenty-nine alto- 

 gether. Tail round, with rather indistinct annuli, covered with 

 small subquadrangular smooth scales. Yellowish or reddish brown 

 above, uniform or variegated with blackish ; lower surfaces yellowish 

 white, immaculate. 



Total length 202 millim. 



Head 29 



Width of head 23 „ 



Body 76 



Fore limb 32 



Hind limb 41 



Tail 97 „ 



Seychelles. 



a-c. d 2 • Seychelles. G. Nevill, Esq. [P.]. 



d,e. c? 2 ■ Seychelles. Dr. E. P. Wright [P.]. 



/. Skeleton. Seychelles. Dr. E. P. Wright [P.]. 



2. .ffiluronyx trachygaster. 



Platydactylus trachygaster, A. Bum. Cat. Meth. jRept. p. 85, and 

 Arch. Mus. viii. p. 452, pi. xvii. fig. 1. 



Head broad; snout very obtuse, rounded. No vertebral groove; 

 a slight fold along the side of the body. Three rows of ohin-shields. 

 Dorsal granules more or less prominent, not conical. Belly covered 

 with suboval granules, arranged regularly, each granule being sur- 

 rounded with smaller ones. Fulvous brown, lighter beneath, 

 darkest on the vertebral line. Length of head aqd body 160 

 millim. 



Madagascar. 



