NO.] 174 HAWAIIAN LAND REPTILES— STEJNEGEJl. 801 



like those ou top of head ; rest of under surface with somewhat larger 

 imbricate scales; digits free, with short but perfectly formed and free 

 distal joints rising angularly from within the basal dilatation, except on 

 the inner digits, which are quite rudimentary; fourth toe longer than 

 third; subdigital lamellfc few and contined to the terminal portion of 

 the dilatation, three and four pairs under the fingers, four and five 

 under the toes, arranged nearly fan like; borders of digital dilatation 

 not unusually denticulated; tail narrow, rather short, subcylindric, 

 without lateral edge, covered by small imbricate scales slightly larger 

 than those on the snout, the lateral ones somewhat more pointed and 

 raised, those on the underside somewhat larger but otherwise similar; 

 an angular series of eleven preanal pores, the angle turned forward, and 

 about eight femoral pores under the distal half of the thigh, all rather 

 obscure (male). 



Color above dull chestnut brown, with obscure, irregular darker 

 marblin gs and several series of small whitish 

 spots on each side of back and similar ones 

 irregularly scattered all over ; a pale dark- 

 edged band from isnout through eye to 

 shoulder, in which, behind eye, three well- 

 defined roundish white spots with dusky 

 margins; a well defined white dark-edged 

 spot on the basal half of each digit above; 

 a well-defined transverse spot of white 

 across the base of tail above ; throat white, 

 unspotted ; rest of underside of body pale, -'"'• o-^nderside of foot of hemi- 



'■ ' ./ i 7 PHVLI.ODACTYLUS LEUCOSTICTU8. 



with indefinite marblings of same twown (Exlauokd.) 



color as back ; tail above of color ot body, 



with ill-defined pale cross bands, white si)ots on sides, below whitish, 



with a median continuous marbling of brown. 



Dimensions. — Total length, G7 mm.; snout to vent, 38 .mm.; vent to 

 tip of tail, 29 mm.; snout to ear-opening, 8 mm.; greatest width of 

 head, 5.5 mm.; fore limb, 8 mm.; hind limb, 13 mm.; from axilla to 

 groin, 20 mm. 



Variation. — Preanal and femoral i)ores are of course wanting in the 

 female. 



There is not much structural difference in the various specimens, it 

 being mostly confined to the usual slight deviati(ms in the number of 

 internasal scales, postmental scales, labials, pores, and subdigital 

 lamelhe. The reproduced tail is exceedingly short, the scales are 

 rougher and more irregularly placed, those on the sides being neither 

 more pointed nor raised, but does not differ otherwise. 



The color is also fairly uniform in all the specimens examined by me, 

 except that in Nos. 23509, 23460, U.S.N.M., the throat is nearly as 

 much marbled with brown as the rest of the under surface. 



Remarlcs. — This addition to the Hawaiian fauna is very closely allied 

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