Lucas and Fbost. — On Neiv Zealand Lizards. 271 



1. Digits about one third webbed. Ear-opening 

 large, oblique, more than half the diameter of the 



orbit. Dorsal granules minute. No femoral pores. JET. ^:)aci/ic?<s. 



2. Digits slightly webbed. Ear-opening round, 

 less than half the diameter of the orbit. Femoral 



pores . . . . . . . . . . . . H. granulatus. 



Hoplodactylus maculatus, Gray. 



NauUinus pacificus, part {N. viaculatus), Gray, Cat., p. 273. 



Hoplodactylus maculatus, Gray, Boulenger Cat., i., p. 171, 



pi. xiv., fig. 1. 



" Head short, oviform ; snout as long as or slightly longer 

 than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once 

 and two-thirds the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening large, 

 oval, oblique, two-thirds or three-fourths the diameter of the 

 eye. Body and limbs moderate. Digits relatively much 

 dilated ; the length of the slender distal part equals the width 

 of the dilated portion, which is contained about three times in 

 the length of the same ; the anterior inferior lamellae chevron- 

 shaped ; ten to twelve lamellae under the fourth toe ; a very 

 slight web at the base of the digits, absent between the two 

 outer toes. Head covered with granular scales, minute on 

 the posterior half, considerably larger on the snout. Rostral 

 broad, subquadraugular or subpentagonal, with trace of 

 median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the first upper 

 labial and ioux or five small nasals ; eleven or itwelve upper 

 and nine or ten lower labials ; mental small, triangular or 

 trapezoid ; small irregular chin-shields passing gradually into 

 the njinute granules of the throat. Dorsal scales minutely 

 granular ; abdominal scales very small, juxtaposed or subim- 

 bricate. Three or four angular series of praeanal pores, the 

 two upper extending sometimes on the thighs ; the number of 

 pores very variable. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with 

 small equal subhexagoual scales arranged in verticils ; the 

 base of the tail strongly swollen in the males, the swollen part 

 covered with large scales. Brown above, with small blackish 

 spots and more or less distinct irregular transverse dark- 

 brown bands on the back and tail ; a more or less distinct 

 dark streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye ; 

 lower surfaces dirty-white, sometimes with a few brown specks. 



"Total length, 156mm.; head, 22mm.; width of head, 

 18mm. ; body, 54mm. ; fore-limb, 28mm. ; hind-limb, 35mm. ; 

 tail, 80mm. 



" Var. — A broad light band on each side of the back." 

 Boulenger. 



In some cases the length of the compressed distal part 

 exceeds the width of the dilated portion. The rostral fre- 

 quently just reaches the nostril. The labials are very variable, 

 often not agreeing on the two sides of the same individual. 



