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very small; on the lower surfaces they are larger and subimbricate ; on the tail 
they are broader and arranged in rings. There is a small tubercular scale 
behind each thigh at each side of the base of the tail, and a group of larger 
ones behind the vent. Neither femoral nor preanal pores are discovered on 
these specimens. 
Light reddish brown, with five irregular transverse ashy blotches across the 
body and about eight across the tail. A light area from the supraorbitals 
backward, lighter specks, spots, cloudings or mottlings on face, flanks and 
limbs. On some the ashy blotches are indistinct or absent, and the spaces 
between them appear as darker edged transverse bands. 
“ New Zealand ; Mr. Edwards.” 
Lepidodactylus lugubris Firz. 
Platydactylus lugubris D. B. 
One specimen from Suva has two tails, a smaller more perfect tail rising on 
the top of a much larger stump, above the anterior caudal vertebre, some dis- 
tance forward of the end, instead of at the extremity, as in the more common 
reproductions. 
Suva and Wailagilala, Fiji Islands, and Upolu, Samoa; Dr. Woodworth. 
Delma reticulata, sp. nov. 
Plate ‘oe Fig. 1-1 i 
Body elongate, slender ; tail much longer ; head long, less than one-eighth 
of the length from snout to vent, subquadrangular in transsection, pointed, 
tapering from midway between the eyes and the ears, bluntly rounded at the end 
of the snout ; jaws nearly equal. Snout hardly as long as the space between 
the orbit and the ear. Earopening oblique, less than half as long as the eye. 
Rudimentary limbs two-thirds as long as the snout, three-fourths as wide as 
long, with five scales,2-+-2-+ 1. Rostral scale subtriangular, nearly twice 
as wide as high ; a pair of frontonasals; nostril pierced between the fronto- 
nasal, the nasal, and the first labial; labials five or six, third elongate, below the 
orbit and separated from it by a series of small scales, second separated from 
prefrontal and loreal by two small scales; prefrontals wide, wider than long ; 
frontal large, longer than wide, octagonal ; postfrontal not so large as the 
frontal, heptagonal, in contact with two large supraorbital shields, the outer 
edges of which rest against three or four smaller supraciliaries; small scales 
separate the loreal and the postorbitals from the eye ; parietals larger than the 
postfrontal, hexagonal; post parietals small, separated on the median line by 
two lozenge-shaped cells ; mental shield larger than the rostral, with three 
angles; lower labials four or five, anterior of opposite sides in contact behind 
