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Show 1887.] MR. BOULENGER ON A NEW GECKOID LIZARD. 153 8. DIDELPHYS MURINA, Linn. a. Pen Hope. 12/10/86. " Brought to me by a coolie at Plantation Hope, which is on the so-called east coast, i. e. about 20 miles along the coast east of Georgetown ; it was caught, as I understand, in the cane-fields."- TV. L. S. 4. On a new Geckoid Lizard from British Guiana. By G. A. BOULENGER, F.Z.S. [Received January 24, 1887.] A small collection of Reptiles and Batrachians was formed by W . L. Sclater during his recent visit to Maccasseema (on the Pomeroon River) in British Guiana, and presented to the Natural History Museum. Small as the collection is, and from a comparatively well-explored district, it nevertheless contains a novelty, the small Lizard described below. The other species of which specimens were obtained are the following :-• Lizards: Thecadactylus rapicauda, Houtt.; Anolis punctatus, Daud.; Ophryoessa superciliosa, L.; Uraniscodon umbra, L,; Cophias flavescens, Bonn.; Amphisbana fuliginosa, L. Gonatodes annularis. |