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



II. Digits more or less dilated, all but the 



inner with the distal joint compressed, 

 short, clawed. 



A. Inner digit clawless ; two series of 



oblique infradigital lamellje divided 



by a median groove 3. Lepidodacti/lus, Fiiz., p. 120. 



B. Inner digit clawed ; infradigital la- 



mella transverse, not divided by a 



groove; tail prehensile 4. Bhacodactylus, ¥itz., ■p. 123. 



III. Digits strongly dilated, without com- 

 pressed distal joint, all furnished with 

 transverse, undivided lamelliE inferiorly ; 

 upper surfaces covered with large, flat, 



plate-like scales ; tail prehensile 5. Eur^dacfi/lus, Sauyg., p. 129. 



IV. Digits not dilated, slightly depressed at 

 the base ; the distal phalanges slender, 

 compressed, clawed, with a series of 



transverse plates inferiorly 6. Gymnodactylus, Spix, p. 129. 



1. Hemidactylus, Cuv. 



1. Hemidactylus GARNOTi. (Plate XXII. figs. 1, 1 «.) 



Hemidactylus garnotii, Dutn. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii. p. 368; 

 *Bavay, Cat. p. 13. 



Doryur a garnotii, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 157. 



Hemidactylus ludekingii, Bleek. Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. xvi. 1859, 

 p. 27. 



This species, first discovered in Taiti, is mentioned by M. Bavay 

 as being found in New Caledonia ; and I entertain little doubt as to 

 the correctness of the identification. The following characters are 

 taken from three specimens in the British Museum (South-Sea 

 Islands, Philippines, Agam) which agree in every point with Bibron's 

 original description : — 



Head much longer than broad ; snout obtusely pointed, longer 

 than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and 

 two thirds the diameter of the orbit ; forehead slightly concave ; ear- 

 opening small, rounded. Body and limbs moderate, depressed. 

 Digits free, or with a very slight trace of web, moderately dilated. 

 A slight but distinct fold of the skin along the flanks, and another 

 bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Upper surfaces and throat 

 covered with minute granular scales, a little larger on the snout ; 

 abdominal scales moderate, imbricate. Nostril pierced between the 

 rostral and three small nasals ; twelve upper and nine or ten lower 

 labials ; mental large, triangular, in contact posteriorly with a pair 

 of pentagonal chin-shields, followed by a second smaller pair ; the 

 anterior pair of chin-shields in contact with the first infralabial and 

 with its fellow mesially ; the posterior pair separated from each other 

 and from the labials. Tail elongate, depressed, narrower than the 

 body, with sharp denticulated lateral edge ; the scales on the upper 

 surface very small, equal ; those on the lower surface larger, imbri- 

 cate, with a median series of large, transversely dilated plates. 

 Brownish-grey above, uniform or with small indistinct darker spots ; 

 lower surfaces uniform whitish. 



