GARMAN: reptiles and BATRACHIANS from AUSTRALASIA. 3 

 CEdura Mayeri, sp. nov. 



Plate a, Fig. '^2c. 



Form similar to that of CK. mannorata ; depressed, elongate, trausversely 

 banded. Head depressed, large, long, subtriangular, pointed in front, widest 

 between the ears and the eyes, concave on the forehead ; snout as long as the 

 distance from eye to ear, blunted at the end, one and one-half times the length 

 of the orbit. Ear opening oblique, two-thirds as wide as the eye. Limbs 

 medium, depressed, in large specimens as broad as the apical expansions, nar- 

 rower in the young. Apical expansions broader than long, with a pair of 

 rounded plates. Four pairs and a number of undivided infradigital plates. 

 Head plates small, flat, smooth, nearly uniform in size, irregularly polygonal 

 in shapes, larger between the eye and the nasal plates. Rostral large, eight 

 sided, about twice as wide as high, with a slight median cleft above. Nostril 

 surrounded by six plates, rostral, first labial and four nasals ; upper two nasals 

 large, anterior largest and meeting the opposite nasal behind the rostral. 

 Eleven labials ; nine lower labials. Mental subtriangular, truncated and in 

 contact with a heptagonal submental which separates the first pair of lower 

 labials ; enlarged submentals in contact with all the lower labials, their sizes 

 decreasing regularly to the small subgulars. Back, sides, and belly covered 

 with small hexagonal to subcircular smooth scales larger than those of the 

 head ; scales of the belly larger ; caudal scales broader than long, subhex- 

 agonal. Femoral pores twenty. Tail long, five sixths as long as the body, 

 slightly depressed, thickened anteriorly, tapering backward to a point, not as 

 wide as the body. A single rounded and flattened tubercular scale at each side 

 of the base of the tail. 



Adults are brown to light grayish brown, with a whitish band from the end 

 of the snout below the eye across the ear and around the occiput on the nape, 

 top of head lighter, four narrow transverse bands of light color across the back 

 and six around the tail. The anterior of the bands on the body is above the 

 shoulder, and the posterior is above the vent. The lower surfaces are whitish. 

 On young specimens the brown is nearly black and the transverse bands are 

 whiter and, the sides being brown, are more distinctly separated from the white 

 of the lower surfaces. 



This differs from the CE. marmorata in the separated infralabials, the larger 

 submental scales, the greater number of femoral pores and the longer more 

 slender tail. Named in honor of Dr. A. G. Mayer. 



Queensland ; Dr. A. G. Mayer and Mr. E. A. C. Olive. 



Gehyra oceanica Gray. 



Gecco oceanicus Less. 

 Fijis : Samoa. ' 



