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Show 1890.] THE LIZARD COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 77 February 18, 1890. Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., in the Chair. Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on two Cats' skulls, out of the large quantity of remains of these animals recently brought to this country from Egypt. The following papers were read :- 1. First Report on Additions to the Lizard Collection in the British M u s e u m (Natural History). By G. A. B O U L E N G E R. [Received January 29, 1890.] (Plates VIII.-XI.) 1. List of the Species, new or previously unrepresented, added to Collection since January 1887. (An asterisk indicates type specimens.) *1. Chondrodactylus weiri, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 339.-Kalahari ( Weir). 2. Teratoscincus przewalskii, Strauch, Geckon. St. Petersb. Mus. 1887, p. 71.-Tschagan-Togoi, Gansu (St. Petersburg Mus.); Kashgar (Lansdell). 3. Crossobamon eversmanni, Wiegm.-Transcaspia (Radde). 4. Saurodactylus mauritanicus, D. & B.1-Mogador (Queden-feldt). 5. Gymnodactylus fedtschenkoi, Strauch, I. c. p. 46.-Transcaspia (Radde). *6. Gymnodactylus russowi, Strauch, I. c. p. 49.-Tschinas, Turkestan (St. Petersburg Mus.). *7. Gymnodactylus anlillensis, v. L. de Jeude, Notes Leyd. Mus. ix. 1887, p. 129.-Curacoa (Leyden Mus.). *8. 03dura africana, Blgr. Ann. N. H. (6) ii. 1888, p. 137.- Damaraland (S. African Mus.). *9. Lygodactylus fischeri, Blgr. infra.-Sierra Leone (Fischer). *10. Gecko listeri, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 535.-Christmas Isl., Indian Ocean (Lister). *11. Platypholis fasciata, Blgr. infra.-Mombasa (Last). 12. Tarentola neglecta, Strauch, I. c. p. 21.-Algerian Sahara (Lataste, R. Blanchard). 1 I n o w find that Gymnodactylus mauritanicus, which I had not seen when the Catalogue of Lizards was published, is not a Gymnodactylus. Its digits are similar to those of Alsophylax pipiens, from which it differs in its small subimbricate flat dorsal scales, and in the absence of prasanal pores. I therefore restore the genus Saurodactylus, Fitz., of which G. mauritanicus is the type, as had already been done by Boettger in 1883.- Gymnodactylus trachyblepharus, Bttgr., is a Gymnodactylus. |