120 MR. G. A BOULENGER ON THE [Mar. b, 



3. Lepidodactylus, Fitz. 

 Four species occur in New Caledonia. 



I. Body moderately elongate, the fove limb measui'- 



iug more thau half the distance from axilla to 

 groin. 



A. Tail flat inferiorly, with sharpish lateral edge. 

 Fovir transverse rows of small chiu-shields ; males 



witha series of femoral pores 1. litgiAris. 



B. Tail cylindrical. 



Digits ' strongly dilated ; males with two series 



of prseanal pores 2. oycluriis. 



Digits very feebly dilated ; males with a single 

 series of prseanal pores 3. sauvagii. 



II. Body much elongate, the fore limb not measuring 



half the distance from axilla to groin. 

 Inner digit rudimental 4. crepmcularis. 



3. Lepidodactylus lugubris. (Plate XXII. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



Platydactylus lugubris, Duni. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii. p. 304 : 

 Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Saur. pi. 1. fig. 1 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. 

 Rept. 16. 



Lepidodactylus lugubris, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 16. 



Amydosaurus lugubris, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 162. 



Hemidactylus meyeri, Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. lud. xvi. 1859, 



p. 47. 



Peripia cantoris, Giinth. Rept, Brit. Ind. p. 110; Stoliczka, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beag. 1872, p. 103. 



Gecko mcestus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 13. 



* Gymnodactylus candeloti, Bavay, Cat. p. 13. 

 Peripia meyeri, Giiuth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 594. 

 Peripia mysoretisis, Meyer, INIon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 129. 

 Peripia lugubris, Peters & Doria, An. Mus. Genov. xiii. p. 371. 



* Platydactylus (Lepidodactylus) crepuscidaris, Sauvage, Bull. 

 Soc. Philoin. (7) iii. p. 69 (nee Bavay). 



Head inucli longer than broad ; snout subacuininate, lunger tban 

 the distance between the eye and the e.ir-opening, about once and a 

 half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead with a median groove ; ear- 

 opening small, round. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, 

 inner well developed, with a rudiment of web ; inferior lamellae nu- 

 merous, seven or eight under the median fingers, eight or nine under 

 the median toes. Upper surfaces and throat with very minute granules, 

 a little larger on the snout ; scales on the belly much larger, flat, 

 juxtaposed or slightly imbricate. Rostral quadrangular, broad ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and two or 

 three nasals, the upper separated from its fellow by one or three 

 small internasals ; eleven to thirteen upper and ten or eleven lower 

 labials ; mental small, smaller than the adjacent labials ; four trans- 

 verse rows of small chiu-shields. Femural pores present in the 

 males, forming a loni< series angular mesially, 25 altogether. Tail 

 flat inferiorly, with sharpish, sometimes feebly serrated lateral edge 

 caudal scales small, flat, equal. Upper surfaces light pinkish grey 



