50 



Snout shorter. Male with 17 praeanal pores, forming a double- 

 arched series. Tail cylindrical. 



Pinkish-brown above, head with small black spots. Limbs 

 and sides of the back speckled with blackish. Tail with dark 

 transverse bars; throat and breast speckled with brown. Length 

 of head and body 51 mm.; tail 54 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (Trobriand Islands). Admiralty 

 Islands. 



Fig. 31. Lepidodactylus guppyi 

 Blgr. X 5- 



4. Lepidodactylus guppyi Boulenger. 



Lepidodactylus guppyi, Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 21 1 ; Cat. Liz. I 

 1885, p. 166. 



Head small, oviform ; snout one and one third time the dia- 

 meter of the orbit, which equals its distance to the ear-opening ; 

 forehead concave ; ear-opening small, round. Rostral quadrang- 

 ular, more than twice as broad 

 as high ; nostril bordered by the 

 rostral, the first labial and three 

 scales. Eleven or twelve upper 

 and as many lower labials ; men- 

 tal small, not much larger than 

 the labials; three or four rows 

 of small chin-shields. Body long, 

 covered with uniform granular 

 scales, those on the snout enlarged ; ventral scales largest and 

 flat, round, slightly imbricate. Male with a series of 44 femoral 

 and praeanal pores. Tail cylindrical, 

 tapering, covered with small equal 

 flat scales. Limbs rather short; digits 

 webbed at the base, inner well devel- 

 oped, 10 or ii lamellae under the 

 median digits, the two or three proxi- 

 mal divided (fig. 32). 



Pinkish-brown above, sides with 

 darker spots; two dark streaks on 

 the side of the head behind the eye, 

 one on the snout. Tail with dark an- 

 nuli. Lower surface whitish, speckled 

 with reddish-brown. Length of head and body 185 mm. 

 Habitat: New Guinea (Humboldt Bay !). Solomon Islanc s. 



Fig. 32. Lepidodactylus guppyi 

 Blgr. Fore limb X Io - 



