122 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [Mar. 6, 



grey, with more or less irreaular dark brown bands across the back ; 

 sides with more or less distinct small round whitish spots ; a more 

 or less indistinct dark streak on the side of the head, passing 

 through the eye ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. 



mi Him. 



Total length 117 



Head i 7 



Width of head 13 



Body 49 



Fore limb 19 



Hind limb 26 



Tail 51 



Five specimens, types of the species, collected by Mr. Brenchley 

 in New Caledonia, are in the British Museum. I have also exam- 

 ined typical specimens of Lepidodactylus neocaledonicus, Bocage, 

 and Hemidactylus bavayi, Sauv., which, on comparison, prove to 

 be identical with this species. 



Platydactylus pacificus of Bavay also belongs to this species, which 

 is the most common Gecko of New Caledonia. 



5. Lepidodactylus. SAUVAGii, sp. n. (Plate XXII. figs. 5, 5a.) 



* Hemidactylus {Feripia) cyclura, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) 

 iii. p. 72 (nee Giinth.). 



This species, which is known to me from a single specimen belong- 

 ing to the Paris iMuseum, resembles the preceding in the proportions, 

 scutellatiou, size, and colour, but differs in the much narrower digits, 

 and the presence of a swingle series of prseanal pores ; this series is 

 composed cf 23 pores. 



6. Lepidodactylus crepuscularis. (Plate XXII. fig. 6.) 



* Platydactylus crepuscularis, Bavay, Cat. p. 8. 



Head oviform, much longer than broad ; snout as long as the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and a half 

 the diameter of the orbit ; ear-opening small, vertically oval. Body 

 much elongate, limbs short, the fore limb not measuring half the 

 distance between axilla and groin. Digits short, free, inner very small, 

 rudimentary ; inferior lamellie few, four or five under the median 

 digits ; the borders of the digital expansions strongly denticulated. 

 Upper surfaces and throat covered with very small granular scales, 

 scarcely larger on the snout ; abdominal scales larger, subimbricate. 

 Rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first upper labial and three small nasals, the upper 

 separated from its fellow by five small internasals ; 12 upper and 1 1 

 lower labials ; mental small, trapezoid ; no chin-shields. Male with 

 ten prseanal pores forming a short angular series. Tail cyclindrical, 

 covered with small, rhomboidal, imbricated scales ; these are distinctly 

 raised on the sides of the tail, forming a slight deuticulatiou. 



