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XXXI.— On the Reptiles of Rotuma Island, Polynesia. 
By G. A. BouLenGcer, F.R.S. 
Mr. J. STANLEY GARDINER has kindly entrusted to me the 
collection of Reptiles made by him on Rotuma, north of 
the Fiji Islands. Small as it is, the collection is of interest 
as affording information on an island the herpetological 
fauna of which had not been previously investigated, and 
in bringing to light a new species of (Geckos, which I 
have much pleasure in naming in honour of its discoverer. 
Mr. Gardiner was assured by the natives that no other kinds 
of Lizards and Snakes exist on the island but those of which 
he secured specimens. Batrachians are absent. 
The species are only eight in number, viz. seven Lizards 
and one Snake, and, with the exception of the new Gecko, are 
known to have a wide geographical distribution. 
1. Gehyra oceanica, Less. 
Known from the Moluccas, New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, 
Solomon Islands, Lord Howe Island, Fiji Islands, Tonga 
Islands, Samoa Islands, and Hervey Islands. 
2. Lepidodactylus lugubris, D. & B. 
Distributed from the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to 
the Pelew Islands, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New 
Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji Islands, and Tonga Islands. 
3. Lepidodactylus Gardineri, sp. n. 
Head small, oviform ; snout once and one third the dia- 
meter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the 
ear-opening ; forehead concave; ear-opening very small, 
oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, 
inner well-developed ; a very slight rudiment of web; 12 to 
14 Jamelle under the median digits, 2 or 3 of the terminal 
ores divided. Scales uniformly granular, the granules 
larger on the snout, largest and flat on the belly. Rostral 
quadrangular, nearly twice as broad as deep, notched above 
mesially to receive an enlarged scale separating the nasals ; 
nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three 
nasals ; 11 upper and as many lower labials; each upper 
labial with a granular asperity or feebly raised vertical keel ; 
three rows of very small chin-shields graduating into the 
granules on the throat. ‘Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered 
with uniform small flat scales, which are larger on the lower 
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