1883.] GECKOS OF NEW CALEDONIA. 



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or brownish, generoUy wit'i a series of small blackish or purplish- 

 brown spots on each side of tho vertebral line ; a purplish-brown 

 streak from the end of the snout to the ear, passing through the eye ; 

 labials generally finely dotted with brown; lower surfaces white, 



immaculate. 



millim. 



Total length 81 



Head 11 



Width of head 8 



Body 33 



Fore limb 12 



Hind limb 17 



Tail 37 



This widely distributed species extends from the Malay peninsula 

 throughout the Indian archipelago. New Guinea, and the islands of 

 the Pacific. From New Caledonia I have examined one specimen, 

 presented by M. Uelacour to the Paris Museum, and described by 

 Dr. Sauvage as Lepidodactylus crepuscular is, Bavay. One of the 

 characters pointed out by Dr. Sauvage as distinguishing the supposed 

 latter species from L. lugubris, viz. the presence of a large gland on 

 each side of the neck, is an individual (apparently pathological) cha- 

 racter, and occurs in many species of the family Geckouidse. 



The Gj/mnodactt/lus candelati of Ba\a.y, of which I have examined 

 the type, is based on a badly preserved specimen of the present species. 



4. Lepidodactylus cyclurus. (Plate XXII. fig. 4.) 



* Platydacfylus pacificus, Bavay, Cat. p. 8 (nee Gray). 



* Peripia cyclura, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N, H. (4) x. p. 422, and 

 in Brenchley's ' Cura9oa,' p. 407. 



* Lepidodactylus neocaledonicus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. p. 206. 



* Hemidactylus {Peripia) bavayi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philoin. (7) 

 iii. p. 71. 



Head o\iforai, longer than broad; snout a little longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and one 

 third the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening moderate, roundish. 

 Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, inner well developed, 

 with a slight rudiment of web ; inferior lamellae numerous, ten or 

 eleven, all divided by a median groove. Upper surfaces and throat 

 covered with very small granular scales, larger on the snout ; abdo- 

 minal scales larger, subimbricate. Rostial quadrangular, twice as 

 broad as high ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper 

 labial, and four or five small nasals, the upper separated from its fellow 

 by three or five small internasals ; nine to eleven upper and nine or 

 ten lower labials ; mental small, subtriangular, shorter than the ad- 

 jacent labials, followed by a median chin-shield ; a few other irregular 

 chia-sbields gradually passing into the granules of the throat. Males 

 with two angular series of prseanal pores ; these series in contact and 

 containing each 11 to l6 pores. Tail cylindrical, covered with small, 

 equnl, flat scales arranged in verticils. Upper surfaces brownish- 



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