THE LAND IIEPTILES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 



By Leonhard Ste.jnk(;ee, 



Curator, Division of Rcptilex and HalrachianH. 



Specimens of all the species of land rej)tiles known to inhabit the 

 Hawaiian Islands have recently been added to the collection of the 

 U. S. National Museum chiefly through the efforts of the late Mr. V. 

 Knudsen, of Kauai, Mr. R. Meyer, of Molokai, and Mr. H. W. Uenshaw, 

 of Hawaii, who have kindly furnished me with a large amount of 

 material. As no collected account of this branch of the Hawaiian 

 fauna has ever been published, I have thought it proper to treat the 

 subject somewhat fully and to add descriptions and figures so that 

 residents, as well as visitors, may be able to identify reptiles they may 

 meet without being obliged to refer to the widely scattered literature. 

 For the sake of completeness I have added the synonyms of each species 

 with citations of the principal herpetological works, as well as other 

 bibliographical references, so far as they relate to specimens from the 

 Hawaiian Islands. These citations have been personally verified by me 

 in all cases in whicli the page reference is not included in i)arenthesi8 

 or omitted. 



List of species occurrinff in the Hawaiian Islands. 



Family Gekkonidjc : Pago. 



Lepidodactylua lugubris .« 788 



Hemidac* lus garnotii 792 



Peropus " iitilatus 796 



Hemiphyllodactylus leucostictus 800 



Family Scin.Jfli« : 



Leiolopisma noctua 805 



Emoia cyanura 807 



Ablepli::: ua ioutonii poecilopleurns 811 



It is quite significant that there are no true land reptiles in the 

 Hawaiian Archipelago other than a few species of lizards, and particu- 

 larly that all the species known to occur there belong to the cosmo- 

 politan families, the geckos and the skinks. It is further to be observed 

 that all three skinks and three of the four species of geckos belong to 

 species widely distributed over the Indo- Polynesian island world, and, 



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