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record of this species for the Solomon Islands, was " Taken 

 from the chart drawer in the Government Residency." At 

 first sight these seem the most precisely accurate data; but, 

 however familiar the location of this building may have been 

 to Mr. Waite, I have had some difficulty in locating it. After 

 several changes, it is now at Tulagi in the Florida Islands, and 

 Dr. Mann thinks that in 1904, the year Waite's specimen was 

 captured, the seat of government was at Aula on Guadalcanar. 

 In any case, Mann's capture of a specimen at Auki, Malaita, 

 appears to be the first for that island and the second record for 

 the Solomons. 



Gekko vittatus Houttuyn 



Gekko vittatus Houttuyn, Verb. Zeeuw. gen. Vlissingen (Middleburg), 

 1782, 9, p. 325, pi., fig. 2. 



The majority of the Solomon Island specimens do not show 

 the bifurcate marking which, with some minor details of squa- 

 mation pointed out by Peters and Doria (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., 

 13, 1878, p. 368), serve to distinguish the ' variety ' hivittatus 

 (D. and B.). The details of scalation are very variable, and the 

 distribution of the variant is entirely haphazard. We have, 

 besides two old specimens from Faro, the following from the 

 Solomons: one from Ugi, tail bifurcate; one from Rubiana 

 Lagoon, New Georgia, marking very conspicuous; ten from 

 Wainone Bay, San Cristobal, mostly wholly unmarked; one 

 from Wai-ai, San Cristobal. 



Gehyra oceanica (Lesson) 



Gecko oceaniciis Lesson, Voy. Coquille, Zoo)., 2, 1830, 1, p. 42, pi. 2, fig. 3. 

 Gehyra oceanica Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1, 1885, p. 152. 



This widespread species is represented by three examples 

 from Ugi, one from Rubiana Lagoon, New Georgia, and two 

 from Graciosa Bay in the Santa Cruz Islands. 



