on the snout and temples. Rostral large, quadrangular, about 

 twice as broad as high, with a median cleft in the superior 

 part; a pair of supranasals; nostril bordered by the rostral, the 

 first upper labial, the supranasal and two or three granules. 

 Seven or eight upper, and as many lower labials; mental very 

 large, varying in form, longer than the labials; a pair of small 

 chin-shields next to the mental posteriorly. Throat covered 

 with granules, as large as those on the snout. Body short, 

 covered above with small granules; back with 16 20 longitu- 

 dinal series of round, conical, ribbed tubercles, the series 

 regular, disposed at equal distances, the tubercles close together. 

 Ventral scales very small, imbricate, keeled. The male has 

 a short, angular series of 7 10 praeanal pores. Tail round, 

 tapering, covered with uniform small, keeled scales and scattered 

 tubercles. Limbs not very long, covered with small granules; 

 basal part of digits with enlarged transverse, imbricate scales, 

 the distal portion compressed. 



Dark brown above, back with blackish, transverse bands; limbs 

 with a darker network above. Belly and throat dark brown, the 

 latter with small whitish spots. Lips with whitish labial sutures. 

 Tail with dark undulated markings. Length of head and body 

 63 mm.; tail 68 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bara Bara, Kelesi, Vikaiku, Fly 

 river, Fife Bay, Yule Island, Stephansort, Sattelberg, Bukaua, 

 Seleo Island, Dorei, Andai, Kapaor, Haas, Mafoor, lake Sentani!, 

 Humboldt Bay!, on Tami river!, along Kaiserin-Augusta river!, 

 along Lorentz river!). Ferguson Island; Trobriand Island; 

 Rossel Island; Cape York; Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon 

 Islands; Islands of the Pacific: Santa Cruz, New Hebrides, 

 New Caledonia, Loyalty, Tonga, Fiji Islands. 



Tree-gecko. 



2. Gymnodactylus lateralis Werner. 



Gymnodactylus lateralis^ Werner, Verb. Ges. Wien Bd. XL VI 1896, p. II, 

 Taf. I, Fig. 4. 



Head large, depressed; snout rather pointed, longer than 

 the diameter of the orbit, which is shorter than its distance 

 from the ear-opening; forehead strongly concave; ear-opening 

 roundish, oblique, about one third the diameter of the eye. 

 Head granular with small tubercles in the occipital and tern- 



