206 



GECKONID.E. 



Hind limb 

 Tail 



South Africa. 



a-c. S ? • 

 d^f. 6 2- 

 9- 6- 



i. ?. 



Island of Ascension. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Cape of Good Hope. 

 Benguela. 



16 millim. 

 30 „ 



H.M.S. ' Chanticleer.' 

 Dr. J. Lee [P.]. 



Prof. Barboza du Bocage [P. j. 



7. Pachydactylus punctatns. 



Pachj dactylus punctatus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1854, p. 616, and 

 Beisen. Mossamh. iii. p. 26, pi. v. fig. 2. 



Differs from P. oeellatus in having the snout somewhat longer and 

 more pointed, the granules of the back and the scales of the tail 

 larger, and the scales on the snout three or four times as large as 

 those on the back of the head. Seven upper and six lower labials. 

 Brown above, spotted with blackish brown ; behind the eye a 

 yellow band, blackish-edged above ; lower surfaces pure white. 



Mozambique. 



8. Pachydactylus maculatus. (Piate XVI. fig. 4.) 



Pachydactylus maculatus, Gray, Cat. p. 167. 

 Pachydactylus maculatus. Smith, 111. S. Afr., Rept. App. p. 4. 



Agrees in size, proportions, and soutellation with P. oeellatus, ex- 

 cept that the granules of the back are intermixed with scattered 

 larger tubercles, twice or three times the size of the granules, that 

 there are a ie^ conical tubercles on the outer side of the tibia, and 

 that there is one lamella less under the disks of the digits. Greyish 

 or brownish above ; a broad dark brown streak on the side of the 

 head, passing through the eye, converging towards its fellow on the 

 occiput ; back with four longitudinal series of large dark brown 

 spots, those of the outer series generally, those of the inner series 

 constantly confluent into a band ; tail spotted and variegated with 

 dark brown ; lower surfaces dotted with brown. 



South Africa. 



Saffron Walden Nat. Hist. 



Soc. [P.]. (Type.) 

 F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



F. P. M. Weale, Esq. [P.]. 



, The Trustees of the South- 

 African Museum [P.]. 



Prof. St. George Mi vart [P.]. 



