34. HOPlODACTTLUa. 171 



34. HOPLODACTYLITS. 



Platydactylus, part., Dum, ^ Bibr. iii. p. 290. 



Hoplodactylus, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 100. 



Pentadactylus, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 160. 



Naultinus, part., Gray, I. c. p. 169. 



Dactylocnemis (Fttz.), Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 11. 



Digits free or shortly webbed at the base, more or less dilated : 

 the distal phalanges slender, elongate, clawed, forming an angle 

 with the basal portion ; a series of transverse lamellae under the 

 latter. Scales small, granular, equal. Pupil vertical. Males with 

 prseanal, or prseanal and femoral pores. 



South-Pacific islands ; Southern India. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. The length of the slender distal phalanges equals one fourth 



the length of the digit, or the width of the dilated part. 



Kostral not entering the nostril 1. maculatus, p. 171. 



II. The length of the slender distal phalanges equals one third 



the length of the digit. 



Digits much dilated, with a distinct web at 



the base; 16 lamellae under the fourth toe 2. duvaucelii, p. 172. 

 Digits not much dilated, with a distinct web 



at the base ; 10 to 12 lamellae under the 



fourth toe, the anterior slightly angular . 3. pacificus, p. 173. 

 Digits very feebly dilated, quite free ; 10 to 



12 lamellae under the fourth toe, 



all straight 4. granulatas, p. 174. 



Digits feebly dilated, free ; 7 or 8 lamellae 



under the fourth toe 5. anamallensis, p. 175. 



1. Hoplodactylus maculatus. (Plate XIV. fig. 1.) 

 Naultinus pacificus, part. (N. maculatus), Gray, Cat. p. 273. 

 Head short, oviform ; snout as long as, or slightly longer than, 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and two thirds 

 the diameter of the orbit; ear-opening large, oval, oblique, two 

 thirds or three fourths the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs 

 moderate. Digits relatively much dilated ; the length of the slender 

 distal part equals the width of the dilated portion, which is contained 

 about three times in the length of the same; the anterior inferior 

 lamellae chevron- shaped ; ten to twelve lamellae under the fourth toe ; 

 a very slight web at the base of the digits, absent between the two 

 outer toes. Head covered with granular scales, minute on the 

 posterior half, considerably larger on the snout. Rostral broad, 

 subquadrangiilar or subpentagonal, with trace of median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the first upper labial and four or 

 five small nasals ; eleven or twelve upper and nine or ten lower 



