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The genus includes a portion of the " Homolepidotes fissipedes, 

 Pentonyx" of Dume'ril & Bibron : their Platydactylus duvaucelii belongs 

 to it. Naultinus pacificus, of Gray (Zool. Misc. 1842, 58), is a true 

 Gehyra ; the species referred to under the same name in Dieffenbach's 

 " Travels into New Zealand, II, 1843, 203," and subsequently called 

 N, granulatus,* may, after all, prove to be identical with the species 

 described below, but since its identity cannot be established upon the 

 published documents, we had to resort to a new name to record the 

 latter. Naultinus brevidactylus, Gray, and N. maculatus, Gray, place 

 us in the same perplexity towards the species we are going to describe, 

 the toes of which being anything but short. At any rate, all the 

 species named by J. E. Gray, and referred to the group of brown colors 

 in his genus Naultinus, belong to the genus Hoplodadylus, which is a 

 Platydactylian. 



As to Gecko pacificus, Gray (Brit. Mus.), we cannot otherwise ac- 

 count for except as a synonym to Naultinus pacificus, of the same 

 writer, and hence goes to Gehyra also. 



HOPLODACTYLUS POMARII, Grd. 

 (Plate XVIII, figs. 10-16.) 



CHAR. SPEC. Scutis mentalibus nullis, et in loco eorum scutellis mini- 

 mis. Squamis dbdominalibus minutissimis, subcircularibus vel sub- 

 rhomboidalibus. Supra fusco-rubro, cum maculis atris elongatis, 

 plus minusve confluentibus, in series longitudinales ordinatis; infra 

 dnereo, unicolori. 



SPEC. CHAR. No mental shields, instead of which some very small 

 plates. Abdominal scales very small, subcircular, or subrhomboid. 

 Upper regions of a dark reddish ground, over which are arranged, 

 longitudinally elongated, black blotches, more or less confluent. 

 Beneath greyish, unicolor. 



STN. Hoplodactylus pomarii, GRD. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. November, 

 1857. 



DESCR. The head is well developed, elongated, depressed, subcon- 

 * Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1845, 273. 



