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SAURIA 

 G3minodactylus pelagicus (Girard) 



Heteronota pelagica Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, p. 197. 

 Gymnodactylus pelagicus Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1, 1885, p. 40. 



Dr. Mann secured one example at Rubiana Lagoon, New 

 Georgia, an island from which there was no previous record, 

 although the species was known from the Shortland Group and 

 from Guadalcanar and its occurrence was to be expected. 



Gymnodactylus louisiadensis De Vis 



Gymnodactylus louisiadensis De Vis, Ann. Queensland Mus., I, 1892, 



no. 2, p. 11 

 Gymnodactylus loriae Boulenger, Ann. Mus. Civico, Genoa, (2), 18, 1897 



(1898), p. 695, pi. 1. 

 GTjmnodactylvs olivii Garman, Bull. M. C. Z., 39, 1901, p. 1, pi. 1, fig. 1. 



Werner first showed that loriae was a synonym of this species 

 (Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 51, 1901, p. 604), a conclusion 

 which later was doubted by Waite (Rec. Austr. Mus., 6, 1905, 

 p. 13) although the latter has no hesitation in relegating Gar- 

 man's species to the synonymy. In this I quite agree. Waite 

 doubts strongly that the type of olivii ever really came from 

 Queensland, and he quotes Mr. E. A. Olive to the effect that 

 he " Thinks he must have obtained the original [type] from 

 New Guinea." It is interesting, however, to record the presence 

 of a second specimen, in a small collection from Rockhampton, 

 Queensland, which I obtained several years ago, and which con- 

 tained several typically Austrahan species. So the species prob- 

 ably does occur in Australia; and, as with so many geckos, its 

 presence or absence is not a matter of moment or a cause for 

 surprise. Waite tells us that the subject of his note, the first 



