NO. 1174. EAWAIIAK LAND BEPTILES-STEJNEGER. 793 



The range of the present species can not be stated with any degree 

 of certainty on account of the doubt attached to the western specimens 

 which may belong to a separate species distinguished by a long series 

 of femoral pores in the male. The distribution in Polynesia and Mela- 

 nesia is also known but fragmentarily, New Caledonia, Tahiti, and 

 the Hawaiian Islands being the principal localities in which the species 

 has been found hitherto. 



The fox gecko, which derives its name from the long fox-like snout, 

 according to Mr. Knudsen's notes is found in thatched and open liouses 

 as well as in cocoanut palms and large mango trees. A number of 

 those sent were picked uj) from under large flat stones and planks. 

 Judging from the numbers sent, this is the most common of the geckos. 



It is apparently the largest of the Hawaiian geckos and is easily dis- 

 tinguished from the other species not only by the fifth digit being per- 

 fectly formed as the others, but also by its chin-shields and color. In 

 the latter respect it may often resemble some specimens of HemqyhyHo- 

 dactylns leticostictns, but the latter has a cylindric tail 

 with no enlarged plates underneath. 



Bescriinion.—Eo. 23510, U.S.N.lVl. Adult; Kalae, 

 Molokai; November, 1896; collector, E. Meyer. Ros 

 tral broader than high, squarish, with a nick in the 

 posterior margin for the anterior angle of the inter- 

 nasal and a median suture, or cleft, extending forward ^ 



' ' ° Fig. 4.— Chin-shields 



for about one-half the height of the shield ; in contact and lowkr labials 

 with two supranasals and one hexagonal scale of about °*" hemidactylus 

 equal size between the latter; first suprahibial in con- lakged.) 

 tact with lower postnasal and reaching nostril ; nostril 

 between rostral, first supralabial and three scales behind and above, 

 the upper one, or supranasal, being of about same size as the others 

 and separated from the supranasal of the other side by a hexagonal 

 internasal; fourteen supralabials, including the small posterior ones, 

 the eleventh being under the center of the eye; top of head covered 

 with minute granules considerably larger on snout; eye much nearer 

 the ear-opening than the nostril, the diameter about two-thirds its dis- 

 tance from ear-opening and much less than one-half its distance from 

 tip of snout; ear-oi^ening roundish, small, smaller than largest sui)ra- 

 labials; mental triangular large, its free margin twice as wide as near- 

 est infralabials; nine larger infralabials; one pair of large, elongated, 

 irregularly hexagonal chin-shields, their anterior angle fitting into the 

 corner between mental and first infralabials, broadly in contact with 

 each other on the median line and followed behind by another pair of 

 shorter and broader chin shields, which are separated from each other 

 by granules and from the infralabials by somewhat larger scales; 

 body and legs above covered with small uniform granules about the 

 size of those on snout; those on throat of about same size, but flat and 

 smooth; scales on rest of underside about four times larger, imbricate, 



