27. GEHSEA. 151 



groove. Upper surfaces covered with small granular scales, a good 

 deal smaller along the middle line of the back than on the sides. 

 Eostral pentagonal ; four chin-shields, the median pair large and 

 elongated, narrowest posteriorly. A long series of femoral pores, 

 about twenty on each side. Tail depressed, rounded, with a median 

 row of large scuteUse inferiorly. Greyish brown above, minutely 

 speckled with black ; whitish beneath. From snout to vent 50 

 millim. ; tail 40 millim. 

 Sandwich Islands. 



6. Gehyra variegSta. 



Peripia variegata, Q-ray, Cat. p. 159. 

 Hemidactylus vanegatus, I)um. 8f Bihr. iii. p. 353. 

 Peropus (Dactyloperua) variegatus, Fitzing. Syst. Sept. p. 103. 

 Peripia torresiana, Giinth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) xix. 1877, p. 415. 



Head longer than broad ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead with a median groove ; ear-opening moderately 

 large, suboval. Body and limbs moderately elongate, depressed, 

 without cutaneous folds. Digits short, free or with a very slight 

 rudiment of web ; the inferior lameUee angular, divided by a median 

 groove. Upper surfaces and throat covered with very small granular 

 scales ; abdominal scales moderate. Eostral quadrangular, broader 

 than high, with a median cleft superiorly ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; seven to nine upper 

 and six to eight lower labials ; mental moderately large, pentagonal ; 

 chin-shields three pairs, inner largest, elongate, outer smaU, fre- 

 quently broken up into small scales ; these shields considerably 

 shorter than in O. mutilata. A short angular series of femoral 

 pores, ten to sixteen altogether. Tail depressed, tapering, the sides 

 rounded ; its upper surface covered with very small flat scales, its 

 lower surface with a median series of large transversely dilated 

 scales. Brown above, generally variegated with darker, sometimes 

 dark with lighter blotches, or with dark bands across the back; 

 frequently two dark streaks on the side of the head and neck, 

 the lower passing through the eye ; lower surfaces uniform 

 whitish. 



Total length 147 millim. 



Head 18 „ 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body 53 „ 



Fore limb 20 „ 



Hind limb 26 „ 



TaU 76 „ 



Australia; Polynesia. 



„ Hot Houtman's Abrolhos. 



b~c. y$. Peak Downs. .Godeffroy Museum' 



