168 GECIONTDJE. 



or five small shields ; nine to eleven upper and nine or ten lower 

 labials ; mental small, subtriangular, shorter than the adjacent labials, 

 followed by a median chin-shield ; a few other irregular chin-shields 

 gradually passing into the granules of the throat. Praeanal pores in 

 two angular series ; these series in contact and containing each eleven 

 to sixteen pores. Tail cylindrical, covered with small, equal, flat 

 scales arranged in verticils. Fpper surfaces brownish grey, with 

 more or less irregular dark brown bands across the back ; sides 

 with more or less distinct small round whitish spots ; a more or less 

 indistinct dark streak on the side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. 



Total length 117 millim. 



Head 17 



Width of head 13 



Body 49 



Fore limb 19 



Hind limb 26 



Tail 51 



New Caledonia. 



a-b, c-e. (S & hgr. New Caledonia. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 



10. Lepidodactylus sauvagii. 



Hemidactvlus (Peripia) cyclura {non Gunth.), Sauvaffe, JBuU. Soc. 



mUom. (7) iii. 1878, p. 72. 

 Lepidodactylus sauvagii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 122 



pi. xxii. fig. 6. 



This species resembles exactly the preceding in the proportions, 

 Bcutellation, size, and colour, but differs in the much narrower digits, 

 and the presence of a single series of pra?anal pores ; this is com- 

 posed of twenty-three pores. 



New Caledonia, 



33. NAULTINUS. 



Naultinus, part., Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 72, and Cat. Liz. p. 169. 

 Heteropholis, Fischer, Abh. Natuno. Ver. Brem. vii. 1882, p. 236. 



Digits free, feebly dilated, gradually narrowing distally, clawed, 

 with a series of transverse lamellae under their entire length. 

 Dorsal scales uniformly granular or intermixed with enlarged 

 tubercles. Pupil vertical. Males with praeaual and femoral pores. 



New Zealand. 



1. Naultinus elegans. (Plate XIV. fig. 3 *). 



Naultinus elegans. Gray, Cat. p. 169. 

 Naultinus grayii. Gray, I. c. p. 170. 

 Naultinu.s punctatus, Gray, I. c. p. 170. 



• Lower surface of foot. 



