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BULLETIN 58^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Genus PEROPUSa Wiegmann. 



1835. Peropus Wiegmann, Nova Ada Acad. Leop. Carol.. XVII. Tt. 1, p. 238 



(type, H. 7nutilatus). 

 1843. Dactyloperus Fitzinger, Syst. Kept., p. 103 (type, M. rarirgatus). 

 1845. Peripia Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 158 (type, H. peronii=mutilatus). 

 1883. Chalinocnemis Duces, La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (type, H. navarri—muti- 



latus) . 

 1883. Spasmocncmis Duge.s, La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (same type). 



Wiegmann's genus Peropus of 1S35 antedates that of Lay and 

 Bennett for a genus of fishes, as the Zoology of the Blossom, in which 

 the latter occurs for the first time, was not published until LS39.'' 



PEROPUS MUTIlATUSc (Wiegmann). 



1834. 



1857. 



Hemidactylus viutilatus Wiegmann, Herpet. ilex., I, p. 54 (type-locality, 

 Manila) (corrected for H. prisiinrus, op. cit., p. 20). — Hemidactylus 

 {Peropi(s) m^;/^Za^^ts Wiegmann, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. Carol., XVII, 

 Pt. 1, 1835, p. 238. — Gehyra mutilata Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 

 1885, p. 148 (Mascarene Islands to Mexico). — Peropvs vmt Hat us Gikard, 

 Herp. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1858, p. 277 (Philippines). — Stejneger, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, no. 1174, 1899, p. 796 (Hawaiian Islands). 



Dactyloperus insxdensis Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1857, p. 195; author's 

 separate, ji. 5 (type-locality. Sandwich Islands). 

 1883. Hemidactylus navarri Duge.s, La Naturaleza, VI, p. 311, pi. viia (type- 

 locality, Tangancicuara, Michoacan, Mexico). 



For complete synonymy see Stejneger, Land lleptiles of the 

 Hawaiian Islands.'' 



Description (figs. 171-173). — Adult female; Bergen Museum; For- 

 mosa; von der Ohe, collector. Rostral broader than high, with a 



median cleft above, in contact with 

 two supranasals and a minute gramde 

 between the latter; first supralabial 

 in contact with the lower postnasal 

 and reaching nostril; nostril between 

 rostral, first supralabial and three 

 scales behind and above, the upper 

 one of which is large and in contact 

 belli nd the rostral wdth the corre- 

 sponding scale of the other side; 9 

 supralabials ; scales on top of head 



Figs. 171-173.— Peropus mutilatus. 2 X ^ tit \ 



NAT.sizE. i7i,sideofhead; i72,chin; 173, finely granular, slightly larger on 

 UNDERSIDE OF FOOT. No. 26395, u.s.N.M. gj^Q^^. '^y^ equidistant 'from ^nostril 



and ear-opening, large, more than two-thirds its distance from ear-open- 

 ing which is moderate, somewhat larger than one of the largest 



"From Ttrjpbi;, mutilated; and icoxxi, foot. 



& Liter. Gaz. and Journ. Belle Lett., London, no. 1179, p. 542, Aug. 24, 1839, where, 

 according to T. S. Palmer, Index Gen. Mamm., p. 16, it is first mentioned in tlie list 

 of new books. A review printed in Mag. Nat. Hist., London, March, 1840, begins 

 thus: "The long-looked for and long-despaired of zoology of Beechey's Voyage is at 

 last before us." 



c Signifying mutilated. d Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXL, 1899, p. 796. 



