NO. 1174. HA WA II AN LAND REPTILES— STE.TNEGER. 797 



Peters has likewise identified Honolulu specimens as belonging to this 

 species.' 



I*eropiis mutilatus has a distribution nearly as extensive as Ahlepharus 

 pcecilopleurns^ occurring, as it does, from Mauritius and the Seychelles 

 to the west coast of Mexico. It has been found in Ceylon, the Malay 

 archii)elago and peninsula, Philippines, and New Guinea, but, curi- 

 ously enough, not as yet in any part of Polynesia, New Caledonia, or 

 Solomon Islands. 



It was first collected in the Hawaiian Islands by the Wilkes Explor- 

 ing Expedition, specimens being obtained in Hawaii, Oahu, and Kauai 

 (Nos. 5676, 5677, U.S.N. M. record book, division of reptiles). It has 

 since been collected by D'Albertis, at Honolulu, as recorded by Peters 

 and Doria, and also by Mr. E. P. Church. Kuudsen sent a number of 

 specimens from Kauai, but it was not in the collections made by Meyer 

 in Molokai or by Henshaw in Hawaii. 



DeHcriptioH. — No. 23498, U.S.N.M. Female adult; Waiawa, Kauai; 

 May, 1895; collector, V. Knudsen. Eostral broader than high, with a 

 median cleft above, in contact with two supranasals; 

 first supralabial in contact with the lower jiostnasal 

 and reaching nostril; nostril between rostral, first su- 

 pralabial, and three scales behind and above, the up- 

 per one of which is large, squarish, and broadly in con- 

 tact behind the rostral with the corresponding scale of '' g 

 the other side; nine supralabials, seventh under cen- fig.5.-chinshields 

 ter of eye, last two very small; scales on top of head and lowkr labials 



^ , , T 1 . 1 T , ■ -,. OF Pekopus mutil- 



finely granular, slightly larger on snout; eye equidis- ^,,us. (enlarged.) 

 tant iiom nostril and ear-opening, large, its diameter 

 more than two-thirds the distance from ear-opening, which is moder- 

 ate, being about the size of the large supralabials; mental shield 

 moderate, triangular, its labial border about twice the width of nearest 

 infralabials; it is followed by six chin-shields in one transverse series, 

 their posterior outline forming together a slightly curved line, the 

 median pair large, elongate, pentagonal, the others gradually smaller 

 toward the sides; outer pair separated from labials by smaller scales, 

 the others in contact with first and second infralabials anteriorly; nine 

 infralabials, gradually decreasing in size backward; body and legs 

 above covered with small uniform granules like those on head and grad- 

 ually increasing in size on the sides to those of the scales^ of the lower 

 surface, which are considerably larger and imbricate, except those on 

 the throat, which are like the dorsal ones, but flat; a distinct dermal 

 fold along the posterior edge of thigh and tibia; toes slightly webbed 

 at base; eight pairs of oblique lamelLe under longest toe, the lamella) 

 on all the digits being restricted to the distal half of the digital dilata- 

 tion; tail flattened, with sharp, finely serrated edge, with a very dis- 

 tinct lateral constriction at base; it is covered with small scales above 



' Peters and Doria, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XIII, 1878, p. 370. 



