AND BATEACIUAXS OF THE SOLOMON^ ISLAN'DS. 37 



CoLIj BRIDGE. 



Duke of Yoke Island. Solomon Islands. 



15. Lielaphis modegtus, Schl. 



16. Tropidonotus hijpomelas, Gthr. 



17. Dendrophis solomoids, Gtlir. 16. Dendrophis so/omonis, Gthr. 



18. macropx, Gthr. 



19. D'lpsas irregularis, !Merr. 17. Dipsas irregularis, !Mcrr. 



Elapid,e. 



20. Diemeaia muelleri, Sclil. 



18. Hoplocep/ialus par, B]gr. 



Hydrophiid.e. 



21. Platurus fascialus, Daud. 19. Platurus fusciatus, Daud. 



In the following pages I give a list of all the species hitherto found in the Solomon 

 group, with notes on the general hahitats. The forms which are restricted to these 

 islands are described. 



BEPTILIA. 



CROCODILLl. 



Ceocodilus, Laur. 



1. Ceocodilus foeosus, Schneid. 



Of this widely-spread Crocodile, ranging from Southern China and the Indian conti- 

 nent throughout the East-Indian and Papuasian islands to North Australia, a skull, 

 I'J inches long, was obtained by Mr. Guppy in the island of Guadalcanal. The animal 

 was said to have been shot there by Capt. Shipman, master of the 'Mary Anderson,' 

 who took the skin to Sydney, but left behind the skull '. 



LACERTILIA. 

 GECKONID^. 



Gyjinodactylus, Spix. 



2. GTMJfODACTYLUS PELAGicus, Girard. 



This species, which must be distinguished from A. Dumeril's G. anioiuil, is distri- 

 buted over nearly the whole of the Austro-Malayan subiegion. The British Museum 

 has specimens from Cape York, Torres Straits, Uuke of York, New Hebrides, Loyalty, 

 Fiji, and the species has also been found in New Guinea. Mr. Guppy obtained 

 specimens in the Shortland Islands. 



' Jiince the reading of this Paper, we have received (Febr. 18S5) a second skull, that of a female specimen, 

 11 feet long, shot by Mr. Guppy in the Shortland Islands, and to which the following note is appended; — 

 •'Injiide the stomach, I found, but partiaUy digested, an Opossum and a large Lizard 1 J foot long, belonging or 

 allied to the genus Cydodus [probably Conicia zebmta]. The same lizard has been sent to the Australian 

 iluseum, Sydney, by traders at Ugi, at the other end of the group ; but 1 was unable to procure a specimen 

 here. The crocodiles, of which I have seen several in this locality, do not apparently attain a greater length 

 than 12 or 13 feet." 



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