32, LEPIDODACTTLtra. 167 



nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and three 

 nasals ; eleven or twelve upper and as many lower labials ; three 

 or four rows of very small chin-shields. Tail cylindrical, tapering;, 

 covered with small equal flat scales. Pinkish brown above, sides with 

 darker spots ; a dark streak on the side of the head, passing through 

 the eye ; tail with dark annuli ; lower surfaces whitish, throat 

 speckled with reddish brown. 



Total length 93 millim. 



Head 12 „ 



Width of head 7 „ 



, Body 3f) „ 



Fore limb 1 1"5 „ 



Hind limb 17"5 „ 



Tail 45 „ 



Solomon Islands. 



a. 2- Faro Island. H. B. Guppy, Esq. [P.]. (Type.) 



8. Lepidodactylus pusillus. 



Peropus pusillus, Cope, Proc. Acad. Philad. 18G8, p. 319. 



Two cross rows of ovate chin-shields, those behind graduating 

 through several rows to the gulars ; two scales between the upper 

 nasals ; nine superior labials to below the pupil. Tail cylindric, 

 swollen. Colour light brown, with a much paler dorsal shade: a 

 brown band through orbit to axilla, and band across muzzle ; tail 

 with a series of pale rounded spots on the median line above. 



S.W. Australia. 



9. Lepidodactylus cyclurus. (Plate XIII. fig, 6.) 



Peripia cyclura, Gilnth. Ann. % Mag. N. H. (4) x. 1872, p. 422, and 



in BrencUey's '■Curaqoa^ Rept. p. 407. 

 Lepidodactylus neocaledonicus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. 1873, 



p. 206. 

 Hemidactylus (Peripia) bavavi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. PJiilom. (7) iii. 



1878, p. 71. 

 Lepidodactylus cyclurus, Boideng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 121, 



pi. xxii. fig. 4. 



Head oviform, longer than broad ; snout a little longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and one 

 third the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening moderate, roundish. 

 Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, inner well developed, 

 with a slight rudiment of web ; inferior lamellae numerous, all divided 

 by a median groove, ten or eleven. Upper surfaces and throat 

 covered with very small granular scales, larger on the snout ; abdo- 

 minal scales subimbricate. Rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as 

 high ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first up])er labial, and 

 four or five small nasals, the upper separated from its fellow by three 



