34. HOPLOUACXTLDS. 173 



Rostral pentagonal, with trace of median cleft above ; nostril 

 pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and four small 

 nasals ; fourteen upper and twelve lower labials ; mental trapezoid, 

 a little shorter than the adjacent labials, followed by a small median 

 chin-shield ; behind the labials small irregular scales passing gradu- 

 ally into the minute granules of the throat. Dorsal scales minutely 

 granular ; abdominal scales very small, subimbricate. Five angular 

 series of praeanal pores, the two upper extending as long femoral 

 series ; fifty pores in the upper series, from one end to tiie other. 

 Tail rounded, tapering, covered with very small subquadrangular jux- 

 taposed scales arranged in verticils. Greyish above, indistinctly 

 marbled with darker ; lower surfaces dirty white, immaculate. 



Total length 205 millim. 



Head 32 „ 



Width of head 25 „ 



Body 93 „ 



Fore limb 44 „ 



Hind limb 53 „ 



Tail 80 „ 



Bengal. 



a. Skeleton. 



3. Hoplodactylus pacificus. 



Naultinus pacificus, Gray, Cat. p. 169. 

 Naultinus pacificus, Gray, in Dieffenb. N. Zeal. ii. p. 203 ; Buller, 



Tra'm. N. Zeal. Instit. iii. 1871, p. 7 ; Hutton, op. ctt. iv. 1872, 



p. 172. 

 Platydactylus pacificus, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 35, and Arch. 



Mus. viii. p. 455. 

 Hoplodactylus pomarii, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1867, p. 197, and 



U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 294, pi. xviii. figs. 10-16. 

 Dactylocnemis pacificus (Fitz.), Steindachn. Novara Rept. p. 11, 



pi. i. fig. 1. 



Head oviform ; snout distinctly longer than the distance betw^een 

 the eye and the ear-opening, once and two thirds the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening rather large, oval, 

 oblique, half or three fifths the diameter of the eye. Body and 

 limbs rather slender. Digits not much dilated, the width of the 

 dilated part being one third the length of same ; the length of the 

 slender distal part equals one third the length of the digit, and is 

 consequently much greater than the width of the dilated part ; the 

 anterior inferior lamella) slightly angular ; ten to twelve lamellae 

 under the fourth toe ; a distinct 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, subquadrangular or subpentagonal, with trace of 

 median cleft- above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first 

 upper labial, and four or five small nasals ; eleven or twelve upper 

 and nine or ten lower labials ; mental small, trapezoid or triangular, 



