204 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



5. Naultinus punctatus. 



Inhab. New Zealand. Museum of Haslar Hospital, 

 presented by H. Kelsall, Esq., Surg. R.N. 



Thumb clawed, dark green, back with very small scattered 

 black specks the size of a granule ; the under side yellow green ; 

 length of body 4 inches; tail broken; toes 5. 5.; claws 5. 5. all 

 acute; toes elongate, unequal, short, the lower joints dilated^ 

 and furnished with a series of cross plates; the last joint rather 

 tapering, flat beneath, triangular above, covered with granular 

 scales ; belly with a fold of skin on each side. The body, limbs, 

 and tail covered with uniform granular scales, the throat with si- 

 milar, and the rest of the under side with rather larger granular 

 scales. The head covered with larger flat polygonal scales, 

 forming small shields over the muzzle. The under side of the 

 base of the tail covered with rather large many-sided smooth 

 scales ; labial plates regular. The scales in the front of the vent, 

 between the thighs, rather larger, each pierced with a pore, form- 

 ing together a triangular spot, and there are two series of pores 

 along the under side of each thigh. 



The Hemidactylus Oualensis, Dmneriland Bibron, Herp. 

 Gen. iii. 351, t. 28, f. 7, probably belongs to this genus. 



Fam. AGAMID^E. 



Genus HATTERIA. Gray, Zool. Misc. 72. 

 Head quadrangular, covered with small scales ; throat with a 

 cross fold ; nape and back with a crest of compressed spines ; body 

 covered with small scales, belly and under side of the tail with 

 large squarish keelless flat scales placed in cross series ; tail com- 

 piessed, triangular, covered with small scales, and with a ridge of 

 large compressed spines; legs strong; toes 5. 5., short, strong, 

 cylindrical, slightly webbed at their base, covered above and below 

 with small scales; claws short, blunt. Femoral pores, none. 

 Pre-anal scales small ; a few of them are pierced in the centre. 



6. Hatteria punctata. Gray, Zool. Misr. 72. Gigantic 



Lizard, Coo&Woy., 3, I. 153,, or Guana. Polack, 

 N. Z. i. 317. 

 Inhab. New Zealand. 



Olive ; sides and limbs with minute white specks ; beneath yel- 

 lowish. The spines of the nuchal and dorsal crests yellow, of the 

 caudal brown; the scales of the back, head, tail, and limbs small, 



