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HORN EXPEDITION—HEPTILIA. 
(<S) Diplodactylus byniei, L. and F. (Plate XII., Fig. 2). 
Dcscripiifln .—Head short, convex ; snout rounded, a little longer than the 
distance between the eye and the ear-opening; latter very small, rounded. Body 
short, limbs moderate, the fore-limb stretched forward reaches the anterior border 
of the orbit, the hind-limb to a little behind the axilla. Digits rather long, 
moderately depressed, inferiorly with transverse rows of discoid scales, usually two 
in a row \ apical dilations small, the inferior plates sub-oval. Upper surfaces 
covered witli minute granular scales, intermixed on the back with numei’ous, 
regularly disposed, rounded, or bluntly conical tubercles. Rostral very low and 
broad, about four times as broad as high, without median cleft; nostril pierced in 
a svvelling between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; internasal space 
concave. Eleven upper labials, the first very large and incompletely divided from 
the rostral, twelve lower labials, anterior very long, projecting behind the mental. 
Mental trapezoid about as broad as long. Scales on the throat minute, granular; 
abdominal scales flat, roundish, juxtaposed, a little smaller than the dorsal 
tubercles. Tail cylindrical, tapering, with rings of scales convex above and flat, 
subquadrangular beneath. Male with three or four blunt spines on each side of 
the base of the tail. Colour. —Brownish-yellow above, with four broad, curved, 
dark brown bands on the body, and five large spots on the tail; a dark brown spot 
behind the base of the hind-limb; most of the tubercles on the back dark brown ; 
head, from snout to behind the eyes, uniform dull brown; under surfaces whitish. 
Dimensions. 
Total length 
Head 
Width of head 
Body 
Fore-limb 
Hind-limb ... 
Tail 
Locality .—Charlotte Waters. 
Named after P. M. Byrne, Esq., the chief officer of the Charlotte Waters 
Telegraph Station. 
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Gehypa, Gray. 
(9) Gehyra variegata, D. and B. (Plate IX., Fig. 3). 
The ground colour varies considerably in these specimens; it may be pale 
