1883.] GECKOS OF NEW CALEDONIA. 119 



millim 



Total length 1 20 



Head 16 



Width of head 10 



Body 44 



Fore limb 20 



Hind limb 2/ 



Tail 69 



2. Gehyra, Gray. 

 2. Gehyra vorax. (Plate XXII. figs. 2, 2 a.) 



Gehyra vorax, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 197, and U. S 

 Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 2/4, pi. 16. figs. 1-8. 



Head longer than broad ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead with a median groove ; ear-opening narrow, 

 suboval, horizontal. Body depressed. Limbs stout, short. Digits 

 short, snbeqiial, strongly dilated, webbed at the base, the inferior 

 lamellse not divided by a median groove, gently curved. A distinct 

 fold of the skin along the flanks, and others bordering the fore limb 

 anteriorly and tlie hind limb posteriorly. Upper surfaces and throat 

 covered with minute granular scales ; abdominal scales moderate, 

 imbricate. Nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, 

 and five small nasals ; thirteen or fourteen upper, and eleven or 

 twelve lower labials ; mental small, pentagonal, in contact posteriorly 

 with a pair of small elongate chin-shields bordered on each side by 

 two smaller ones. Males with a long . — ■ — ,-shaped series of femoral 

 pores, 25 to .'^0 on each side. Tail rounded, tapering, scarcely de- 

 pressed, covered above with very small juxtaposed scales, inferiorly 

 with larger imbricated scales, the median series being largest. Brown 

 above, uniform, or with darker and lighter markings ; lower surfaces 

 uniform whitish. 



millim. 



Total length 237 



Head 38 



Width of head 29 



Body 114 



Fore limb 42 



Hind limb .... 58 



Tail 85 



A specimen of this species from the Loyalty Islands is in the 

 British Museum, and others from the New Hebrides, Fiji, and 

 Norfolk Islands. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1883, No. IX. 



