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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
12. Palmatogecko. 
The whole animal uniformly granulated ; digits above and below 
densely covered with small uniform granules, without any trace of lamellae, 
the short free distal joint with a faint obtuse claw ; eyelid distinct all 
round the eye ; pupil vertical. P. mngei Anders. 
Notes on the Specific Characters of Certain Species. 
1. Chondrodaclylus. — The swollen palms and soles are very charac- 
teristic, and individuals are of stout build, reaching a large size. C. weiri 
Boul. (P.Z.S., 1887, p. 340) is in my opinion of doubtful validity, for its 
separation from C. angulifer is based upon characters which are all very 
variable in angulifer ; this applies to the degree of enlargement of the 
supraorbital scales, the number of scales between the supraorbitals, the 
size of the ventrals relative to the eye, and the degree of keeling of the 
dorsal scales. 
The South African Museum has a good series of C. angulifer from 
Little Namaqualand and western Cape Province. In this series there are 
two or three individuals which have three series of scales between the 
supraorbitals, but they do not also combine the other characters of 
C. weiri, and in view of the fact that none of the Cape Province specimens 
have precisely that combination of variations which are said to separate 
off the Kalahari species, the identity of this latter must remain undecided 
until a large series of Kalahari specimens is available for examination. 
2. Lygodactylus ocellatus Roux. — (Zool. Jahrb., 1907, p. 406.) This 
seems to be a distinct species ; it is easily distinguished from capensis 
by the character of the mental as given in the key. According to Roux it 
also differs from capensis in that there are only two nasals, and the nostril 
abuts on the rostral, whereas in capensis there are three nasals, and the 
rostral is cut off from the nasal ; but we have specimens of capensis which 
have precisely the condition described for ocellatus, and on the other 
hand all our specimens of ocellatus have three nasals. 
The character of the subdigital lamellae, which in the original des- 
cription of ocellatus is given as three pairs, is not altogether reliable, for 
our specimens have definitely four pairs, though the most distal pair is 
small. 
Apparently the two species occur together, for we have two specimens 
representing each species taken at Waterval Onder (Dr. Gough) on the 
same date, and recorded together under one number. 
3. Homo'pholis — The validity of H. macrolepis Boul. is very doubtful. 
The points of difference from H. wahlbergi Smith, according to the descrip- 
tions given in the B. M. Catalogue, are : in wahlbergi ear opening very 
small and round, in macrolepis ear opening small, roundish, sub triangular, 
but in the original description of wahlbergi the ear opening is given as 
narrow, oblique, broadest below ; in wahlbergi, nostril between the first 
upper labial and five small nasals ; in macrolepis, nostril between the 
first labial and six scales, the two anterior of which are largest ; whilst 
according to Smith’s description of wahlbergi there is a relatively large 
nasal, situated antero-ventrally, and a smaller one just above it, no mention 
being made of the number of posterior nasals ; in wahlbergi, tail covered 
