Zoological Miscellany. 
front toes nearly free, the hinder ones more than half webbed ; toe-disks 
moderate : tympanum distinct, sunk : the palatine teeth in 2 small groups, 
between the inner nostrils. 
Var. hack whitish grey, reddish dotted. 
Inhabits the North coast of Australia; Port Essington. 
Eucnemis hicolor. Blue in spirits ; underside of body and limbs bluish 
white ; the lips, chin, and a streak from under the eye, beneath the tympa- 
num and along the side of the body to the groin, pure white : back smooth ; 
belly and thighs granular : the fore toes scarcely webbed, the hinder ones 
webbed to the end ; the toe disks small ; tympanum distinct. 
Agrees with the variety of Hyla Jacksoniensis in the disposition of the 
colors. 
Inhabits North coast of Australia; Port Essington, Mr. Gilbert. 
Description of some new species of Reptiles, chiefly from 
the British Museum collection. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
Gecko Smithii, Gray. Black, with minute white-tipped tubercles ; back 
with cross bands of white spots, the 2 front bands lunate : tail with 8 white 
spots ; the front small, next round, the rest oblong, longer towards the tip, 
last spot subapical : beneath grey, brown marbled ; head grey, occiput with 
3 diverging, and the sides of the throat with 2 black streaks. 
Inhabits Prince of Wales’ Island. Mus. Fort Pitt, Chatham. 
Gecko chinensis,Gi'dij. Scales of the back granular, with scattered, rather 
larger, convex, tubercular scales ; pale brown, brown clouded and blackish 
dotted, beneath whitish : tail rather depressed, blackish ringed. 
Inhabits China ; J. R. Reeves, Esq. Brit. Mus. 
Tarentola clypeata, Gray. Head flattened and circumscribed by a cross rib 
behind, covered with larger convex scales: back granular with close cross 
ridges of tubercles : greyish in spirits : limbs and tail slender. 
Inhabits ? Museum of the Andersonian Institution, Glasgow. 
Phelsuma trilineatum, G ray. Olive black in spirits, with 2 rows of oblong 
spots and 3 narrow lines : forehead with a triangular orange spot and a broad 
streak from the nostril to the fore leg, enclosing the ear : femoral and pre- 
anal pores distinct, in an angular line : thumb linear, distinct. 
Phelsuma lineatum^ Gray. Gecko inunguis^ Cuv. R. A. t. 5, fig. 1. Thumb 
rudimentary, tubercular ; femoral and preanal pores forming an angular 
line : brown in spirits, with a black upper and darker lower-edged white 
streak on each side ; beneath whitish : scales of back ovate. 
Inhabits Madagascar. Brit. Mus, 
Gehyra, Gray. Family Geckotidcs. Toes free, depressed, ovate, much 
dilated, apex compressed, elongate, free, clawed, all with entire transverse 
scales beneath ; thumb dilated, without the elongated last joint, clawless : 
back and beneath with small granular scales : femoral pores none : tail 
round. Part of Peroplus of Wiegmann, but has the scales of Gecko ^ and 
GRAY, ZOOL. MISC.—MAY, 1842, 
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