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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
dorsal tubercles larger, more strongly keeled, subtrihedral ; horizontal 
diameter of eye equal to length of six or seven scales on middle of belly. 
A blackish crescentic band concavity forwards, extending from 
shoulder to shoulder, and pairs of round whitish spots on the back. 
*C. weiri Boul. 
2. Ptenopus. 
Head and body with uniform small granules all over, a little larger 
on the belly ; nostril between two nasals, the antero-inferior being larger 
and in contact with rostral and first labial ; no chin shields. Pale above, 
with dark reddish-brown reticulations forming spots. P. garrulus Smith. 
3. Phyllodactylus. 
Digital expansion considerably wider than the digit. Nostril 
between the rostral and three small nasals, the first labial being cut off 
by the crescentic infra-posterior nasal. No regular chin shields, but small 
polygonal scales passing gradually into the minute granules of the gular 
region. Greyish or reddish-brown above, variegated with dark-brown. 
P. porphyreus Daud. 
Digital expansion scarcely wider than the digit. Nostril pierced 
between rostral, first labial, and three small nasals, which are generally 
granules. A row of small chin shields. Upper surfaces greyish-brown, 
usually with four or six dark-brown longitudinal lines on the back and 
tail, but sometimes with wavy transverse lines. P. lineatus Smith. 
4. Oedura. 
Nostril between four or five scales, the upper largest and separated 
from its fellow by a granule ; head with small round convex granules, 
largest on the snout ; chin shields small and flat, passing gradually into 
the small granules of the throat. 
Pale-brown above, mottled with darker transverse bands ; tail with 
blackish transverse spots dorsally, and whitish annuli in the distal half. 
0. nivaria Boul. 
Nostril between the rostral and three nasals, the upper of which is 
large, and forms a suture with its fellow. No chin shields ; head with 
uniform small round flat granules. 
Greyish above, with small brown spots and transverse brown bands, 
five on the body and three on the tail. 0. africana Boul. 
5. Hemidactylus. 
Digits free, the distal joints long. Dorsal surface of body with small 
granules and small irregularly scattered convex or subtrihedral tubercles ; 
tail with very small scales and large conical tubercles arranged in six 
longitudinal rows. Male with fifteen or more femoral pores on each side. 
Grey or light brown above, with dark spots or undulated cross bands. 
H. mabouia Mor. 
6. Lygodactylus. 
Mental broken by a continuation forwards of the line between lower 
labials and gulars on either side ; four or five pairs of subdigital lamellae. 
See note on this species. 
