Mr. Duboulay [C.l. 

 J. B. Elsey, Esq. [C.]. 



Mr. Duboulay [C.]. 

 G. KreflPt, Esq. [P.]. 

 Rev. S. Macfarlane [C.]. 

 (Types of Peripia torresiana.) 

 Rev. S. Macfarlane [0.]. 



J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 

 Haslar Collection. 



7. Gehyra australis. 



Gehyra australis, Grai/, Cat. p. 163. 

 Gecko grayi, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 11. 



This species agrees in every respect with G. variegata except in 

 lacking the median division under the dilated part of the digits. 

 Australia. 



a-c. (S . Swan River. Earl of Derby [P.]. I .rp \ 



d. S- Port Essington. EarlofDerby [P.J. f ^^"P® ^^ 



e. $ . Port Darwin. R. G. S. Buckland, Esq. [C.]. 



8. Gehyra oceanica. 



Gehyra oceanica, Gi-ay, Cat. p. 163. 

 Gecko oceanicus, Lesson, Coquille, ii. i. p. 42, pi. ii. fig. 3. 

 Hemidactylus oualensis, Dum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 350, pi. xxviii. fig. 7. 

 Gehyra oceanica, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 58; Cfirard, U.S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp. p. 273 ; Peters Sf Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 



1878, p. 369. 

 Peropus (Perodactylus) oualensis, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 103. 

 Gehyra papuana, Meyer, Man. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 129. 



Head longer than broad ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead and the space between the nostrils with a well- 

 marked median groove ; ear-opening moderately large, suboval, 

 horizontal. Body and limbs moderately elongate, rather depressed ; 

 a more or less indistinct fold of the skin along the side of the throat 

 and beUy, and another bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Digits 

 moderate, united at the base by a short web ; the inferior lamellae 

 not divided by a median groove, distinctly curved, subangular. 

 Upper surfaces and throat covered with very small granular scales. 

 Abdominal scales moderate, llostral large, quadrangular, its superior 

 border emarginate ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first 

 labial, and four or five small nasals ; gleven to thirteen upper and 

 nine to eleven lower labials ; mental small, variable in shape ; chin- 

 shields three on each side, inner elongate. Tail rounded, tapering, 

 slightly depressed, covered above with very small juxtaposed scales, 



