202 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



III. DESCRIPTIONS of the REPTILES and AMPHIBIA hitherto 

 observed in New Zealand, by J. E. GRAY, F.R.S., &c. 



Fam. SCINCID^E. 



1. Tiliqua Zelandica. Harmless Lizard. Polack, N. Z. 



i. 317. 



Pale brown, with irregular small black spots, with a narrow 

 white streak from the nostril over the outer edge of the eyebrow, 

 along the sides of the body and tail, and a narrow black streak 

 below it; sides rather darker, with a few short black-edged white 

 spots; throat arid beneath greenish silvery, with a narrow silvery 

 streak from the cheek across the middle of the ears on the side of 

 neck, and another down the middle of the front of the fore feet ; 

 tail tapering, slender; toes slender; ears deep, round, with a few 

 very obscure rounded scales in front ; scales smooth, of the nape 

 obscurely three-grooved. 



" Is called Moko-Moko by the natives of Cook's Strait, where it 

 lives amongst fern on the hills, or in the shingle of the sea-coast. 

 The general native name for reptiles is Ngarara." Dieffenbach. 



2. Tiliqua ornata. 



Inhab. New Zealand, Cook's Straits. Dieffenbach. 



Pale brown with small black and white dots, sides paler with 

 similar dots, darker above, and separated from the back by an in- 

 distinct pale marginal streak ; beneath, silvery, varied with the 

 darker edge of the scales ; tail thick, tapering, above brown black 

 and white dotted and varied ; beneath white ; ears deep, round, 

 with a few very obscure round scales in front; scales smooth, thin, 

 with three more or less distinct white streaks. 



Like the former, only described from a single specimen in 

 spirits, which may be immature. Other specimens would be 

 desirable. 



Fam. GECKOTID.E. 



Genus NAULTINUS. Gray, Brit. Mus., and Zool. Misc., 

 72. 



Toes 5. 5. free, base thick, rather dilated ; last joint elongated, 

 thick, compressed, free, clawed ; all with entire cross scales beneath. 

 Thumb similar, but the base is shorter. Scales small, granular, 

 subequal above and below. Tail tapering, round, with scales like 

 the body. 



