REPTILES FROM BRITISH NEW GUINEA 695 



REPTILIA. 



EMYDOSAURIA. 

 Ci'oeotliliclae. 



1. Crocodilus porosus, Sclm. — (xerekanumu. 



CHELONIA 



1. Chelodina novae-guineae , Blgr. — No locality. 



SQUAMATA. 



LACERTILIA. 



Oeclconidae. 



3. Gymnodactylus pelaglcus, Gir. — Bara Bara, Kelesi, Yikaiku. 



4. Gymnodactylus louisjadensis, De Vis. — Gerekanumu. 



A single specimen, with an angular series of \k praeanal 

 pores, separated from a series of 17 rather indistinct femoral 

 pores under each thigh. The specimen agrees perfectly well 

 with De Vis's description , except that the enlarged dorsal tu- 

 bercles are feebly keeled instead of smooth. 



The type came from Sudest I.*^ The British Museum possesses 

 specimens from Fergusson I."^ and Woodlark I.** 



5. Gymnodactylus loriae, sp. n. (Plate A'l). — Head large; snout 

 longer than the diameter of the orbit , which equals its distance 

 from the nostril or from the ear-opening ; forehead and loreal 

 region concave ; ear-opening roundish , one third the diameter 

 of the eye. Body and limbs rather elongate. Digits strong, slightly 

 depressed at the base, strongly compressed distally, with well- 

 develo})ed transverse lamellae inferiorly. Head granular, with 

 small round tubercles on the occipital and temporal regions. 



