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very small : on the lower surfaces they are larger and subimbricate ; on the tail 

 they are broader and arranged in rings. There is a small tubercular scale 

 behind each thigh at each side of the base of the tail, and a group of larger 

 ones behind the vent. Neither femoral nor preaual pores are discovered on 

 these specimens. 



Light reddish brown, with five irregular transverse ashy blotches across the 

 body and about eight across the tail. A light area from the supraorbitals 

 backward, lighter specks, spots, cloudings or mottlings on face, flunks and 

 limbs. On some the ashy blotches are indistinct or absent, and the spaces 

 between them ajjpear as darker edged transverse bands. 



" New Zealand ; Mr. Edwards." 



Lepidodactylus lugubris Fixz. 

 Platydactylus lugubris D. B. 



One specimen from Suva has two tails, a smaller more perfect tail rising on 

 the top of a much larger stump, above the anterior caudal vertebrae, some dis- 

 tance forward of the end, instead of at the extremity, as in the more common 

 reproductions. 



Suva and Wailagilala, Fiji Islands, and Upolu, Samoa ; Dr. Woodworth. 



Delma reticulata, sp. nov. 



Plate a. Fig. 1-1 f . 



Body elongate, slender ; tail much longer ; head long, less than one-eighth 

 of the length from snout to vent, subquadrangular in transsection, pointed, 

 tapering from midway between the eyes and the ears, bluntly rounded at the end 

 of the snout ; jaws nearly equal. Snout hardly as long as the space between 

 the orbit and the ear. Earopening oblique, less than half as long as the eye. 

 Rudimentary limbs two-thirds as long as the snout, three-fourths as wide as 

 long, with five scales, 2 -|- 2 -f- 1. Rostral scale subtriangular, nearly twice 

 as wide as high ; a pair of frontonasals ; nostril pierced between the fronto- 

 nasal, the nasal, and the first labial ; labials five or six, third elongate, below the 

 orbit and separated from it by a series of small scales, second separated from 

 prefrontal and loreal by two small scales ; prefrontals wide, wider than long ; 

 frontal large, longer than wide, octagonal ; postfrontal not so large as the 

 frontal, heptagonal, in contact with two large supraorbital shields, the outer 

 edges of which rest against three or four smaller supraciliaries; small scales 

 separate the loreal and the postorbitals from the eye ; parietals larger than the 

 postfrontal, hexagonal ; post parietals small, separated on the median line by 

 two lozenge-shaped cells ; mental shield larger than the rostral, witli three 

 angles; lower labials four or five, anterior of opposite sides in contact behind 



