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tubercles are- scattered, occasionally they are more numerous than the 
smaller ones. Sometimes tie colours of the dorsal pattern are in 
vivid contrast ; ore such specimen (Port Elizabeth Museum) could be 
described as having a double row of rather large, dark, black-margined 
islets separated by whitish reticulations ; just over the neck this whitish 
reticulation forms a cross. 
Pachydactylus mariquensis Smith. — The Port Elizabeth Museum has 
a specimen of this species which is abnormal in several respects. The 
head is considerably more flattened than usual, and the snout is relatively 
long and not obtuse. 
There are eight lower labials instead of six or seven as in normal speci- 
mens. The markings on the snout and forehead are normal, but the semi- 
circular band round the back of the head is incomplete behind (as in 
macula tus). The markings on the back are all reddish-brown, margined 
with black, but they are arranged as a narrow, irregular, broken, reticu- 
lately- marked lateral band, and a broader irregular dorso-lateral band, 
these bands expanding in places into large spots, which in the posterior 
region of the back coalesce into transverse bands. 
The long and slender tail is transversely banded, the dark bands being 
narrower than the pale intervals. 
Pachydactylus ocellatus Cuv. — Occasionally this species has, in addition 
to the small ocelli, some dark blotches or longitudinally elongated dark 
streaks dorsally. The dark streak on the side of the head is not curved 
posteriorly ; on the snout it is bordered above by a white streak. 
Pachydactylus punctatus Pet. Our specimen from Selati (Zoutpans- 
berg District) has the naso-rostrals united ; the back is covered with 
smooth, flat, imbricating scales. 
5. Rhoplropus. — I have not seen any representative of this genus. The 
genus Dactychilikion has been reduced as a synonym of Rhoptropus by Mr. 
Boulenger, but so far as I know the validity of the species ( braconnieri 
Thom.) has not been questioned. 
Distribution of the Species. 
1 . Chondrodactylus angidijer Pet. — This species is known from Bethany 
and from a locality between Aus and Bethany (Great Namaqualand), 
from Little Namaqualand, Touws River, Beaufort West and Kenhardt 
(South African Museum), from Malmesbury (Boettger), from Carnarvon 
(Albany Museum), and from the Karroo. 
Chondrodactylus weiri Boul. — Recorded from the Kalahari. 
2. Ptenopus qanulus Smith — This species is recorded from various 
localities in Great Namaqualand (Angra Pequena and between Aus and 
Bethany), and the South African Museum has specimens from Little 
Namaqualand and Little Bushmanland ; Mr. F. A. Pym has taken the 
species at Modder River, near Kimberley, and Mr. F. W. Fitzsimons 
has this gecko from the immediate neighbourhood of Graaff-Reinet, 
which is the most southern record known to me. 
3. Phyllodactylus porphyreus Daud. — Apparently this species in South 
Africa is confined to the western portions of Cape Province,* though it is 
