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This genus is most nearly allied to Gehyra, but differs from it 

 in the end of the toes not being compressed. " Amongst fern, and 

 in the forest of the Northern Island." Dieffenbach. 



* Femoral pores none. 



3. Naultinus elegans. Gray, Zool. Misc., 72. 



Inhab. " Northern Island, amongst decayed trees, and 

 running about between the fern. Called Kakariki" 



Thumb clawless ; green, rather paler beneath ; streak along the 

 under lip to the ear, two arched stripes on the top of the head, 

 irregular-shaped spots on each side of the back, hind legs, inter- 

 rupted streak along each side of the body and tail white, with a 

 narrow black edge ; tail with a cross series of compressed larger 

 scales at the base. 



" Departed spirits are said to transfer themselves into this and 

 the former species, and the natives regard them therefore with a 

 certain dread, calling them Atuas Gods." Dieffenbach. 



* * Triangular patch of the scales in the front of the vent 

 pierced with a central pore. 



4. Naultinus pacificus. Gray, Zool. Misc., 73. Gecko 



pacificus, Gray., Brit. Mus. Platydactylus Duvau- 

 celii, Dum. and Bib., Herp. Gen. iii. 312. 



Pale brown, marbled, and dotted with darker brown, forming 

 four broad, irregular, unequal confluent bands across the back ; a 

 dark streak from the back angle of the eye to the angle of the 

 mouth, and a broad irregular band from the upper part of the 

 back of the eyes to just over the ear. Lower lip with six larger 

 plates on each side the rostral one, the three front largest ; the 

 upper lip with a small roundish scale in the middle just above 

 the rostral plate. 



Var. 2. Small, with only the two front lateral lower 



labial plates large. 



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

 "Islands of the Pacific Ocean/' Mr. S. Stutch- 

 bury, 1830. 



This species appears to have a more general distribution than 

 the preceding, as we some years ago received a small specimen 

 from Mr. S. Stutchbury, who brought it from one of the islands of 

 the Pacific. It agrees in many points with the P. Duvaucelii of 

 Dumeril, but they describe that species as coming from Bengal. 



