NO. 1174. 



HA WAIIAN LAND REPTILES— 8TEJNEGER. 



796 



transverse plates underneath, but the scales bordering these plates are 

 reduced to one row. 



The ground color seems to be subject to some slight variation and in 

 the paler specimens there are indications of irregular darker mottlings, 

 a dark stripe through the eye underneath the white one and darkish 

 edges to the white spots. 



A very young specimen from Kauai (No. 23495, U.S.N.M.; length 

 from snout to vent, 22 mm.) shows all the characters of the adult, 

 except that the color above seems to be uniform drab. The anterior 

 chin-shields are also separated by two small scales. 



Lint of apecivienn of Hemidactijlus garnotii. 



PEROPUS' Wiegmann. 



18.3.5. — Peropua Wieg.mann, Nova Acta Acad. Ca?8. Leop. -Carol., XVII, i, p. 238 



(type, H. mutilatua). 

 1843. — Dactyloperits Fitzixoer, .Syat. Rept., p. 103 (type, H. varicgatm). 

 1845. — Peripia Gray, Cat. Lizards IJrit. Mna., p. 158 (type, H.peronii^=miitilatuH). 

 1883. — Chalinocnemis DuGlcs, La Naturaleza (Mex.),VI, p. 312 (type, H. navarri^ 



mutilatHS). 

 1883. — Spasmocnemifi DuGlcs, La Natnraleza (Mex.),VI, p. 312 (same type). 



Coinjjressed distal X)halanx of digits free rising angularly from within 

 the edge of the dilated portion; subdigital lamellic confined to the dis- 

 tal end of the dilatation and divided by a median groove; inner digits 



' From TtTjfjoi, matilated, and nov^, foot. 



