204 GECKONID^E. 



4. Pachydactylus rugosus. 



Pachydactylus rugosus, Smith, III. 8. A/r., Rept. pi. Ixxv. flg. 2. 



Head oviform, very distinct from neck ; snout moderate, obtuse, 

 a little longer than the diameter of the orbit. Ear-opening oval, 

 oblique. Body not much depressed. Limbs rather long ; digits 

 short, of Bubequal width throughout their length, with four or five 

 lamellae inferiorly. Tail (reproduced ?) short, thick. Head covered 

 with conical tubercles intermixed with small granules ; naso-rostrals 

 separated by a granule ; rostral a little broader than high ; ten upper 

 labials ; nine lower labials, gradually decreasing in size ; mental 

 subtriangular. Upper parts with small granules of irregular size, 

 intermixed with large, conical, spinose tubercles arranged irregularly. 

 Scales on lower surfaces granular, subcouical. Head brownish white, 

 with a large, crescent-shaped, greyish-brown mark extending from 

 eye to eye ; back greyish brown, with four transverse, dentated, 

 whitish bars, narrower than the intervals ; a whitish band from the 

 mouth to the anterior cross bars ; lower surfaces whitish, speckled 

 with brown. 



Total length 84 millim. 



Head 17 „ 



Width of head 12 „ 



Body 39 „ 



Fore limb 21 „ 



Hind limb 28 „ 



Tail 28 „ 



Interior of South Africa. 

 a. Adult. S. Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. (Type.) 



•5. Pachydactylus oshaughnessyi. (Peaib XYI. fig. 3.) 



Head regularly oviform, not much broader than the neck ; snout 

 obtuse, subtriangular, a little longer than the diameter of the orbit. 

 Ear-opening very small, oval, oblique. Limbs moderate ; digits 

 short, of subequal width throughout their length, with four or five 

 lameUse inferiorly. Body not much depressed. Tail rounded, very 

 thick in its anterior half, ending in a thin point. Snout covered 

 with convex scales which are much larger than the granules of 

 the back ; the remainder of the head covered with very small gra- 

 nules intermixed with larger ones ; naso-rostrals in contact; rostral 

 broader than high ; eight upper labials ; seven lower labials, first as 

 long as, and broader than, the mental ; latter a little narrowed pos- 

 teriorly, twice as long as broad. Back covered with small granules 

 intermixed with large, keeled, conical tubercles arranged rather 

 irregularly. Outer side of femur and tibia with conical tubercles. 

 Throat granulate, belly covered with moderate-sized imbricated scales. 

 Tail covered with rather large, equal, strongly imbricate, cycloid, 

 smooth scales. Head y-ellowish, bordered by a blackish streak 



