166 GECKONID^. 



c. 2 



d. ,J 



e. 2 

 /■ 2 

 9- S 



Amboyna. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



Pelew Islands. Godeifroy Museum. 



Murray Island. Rev. S. Maofarlane [C.l. 



Tahiti. , H.M.S. 'Alert.' 

 Isld. of Havannah, New Heh- Dr. Oorrie [P.]. 

 rides. 



h. 2. Mallicollo, N. Hebrides. W.WykehamPerryjEsq. [P.] 



i-k. 2 . Island of Onio, Fiji. F. M. Eayner, Esq. [0.1 



?-«. 2- Fiji Islands. E. A. Liardet, Esq. [P.I. 



«. 2 ■ Island of Vati, S. Pacific. Dr. Oorrie [P.]. 



5. Lepidodactylns labialis. 

 Gecko labialis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 14. 



Very closely allied to L. lugubris, from which it differs in the 

 following points : fourteen upper and fifteen lower labials ; no femoral 

 pores, but on each side nine praeanal pores forming a doubly arched 

 series, angular medially. Tail cylindrical. 



Mindanao. 



6. Lepidodactylus pulcter. (Plate XIII. fig. 5.) 



Differs from L. lugubris in the following characters : — Snout 

 rather shorter. Seventeen prasanal pores, forming a doubly arched 

 series, angular medially. Tail cylindrical. Pinkish brown above, 

 head with small black spots ; limbs and sides of the back with 

 minute blackish specks ; tail with dark transverse blotches ; throat 

 and breast minutely speckled with brown. 



Total length 105 millim. 



Head 12 „ 



Width of head 9 „ 



Body 39 „ 



Fore limb 15 „ 



Hind limb 19 „ 



Tail 64 „ 



Admiralty Islands. 



a-c. S 2 ■ Wild Island. H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



7. Lepidodactylus guppyi. 

 Lepidodactylus guppyi, JBouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 211. 



Head small, oviform, very convex ; snout once and one third the 

 diameter of the orbit, which equals the distance between the latter 

 and the ear-opening ; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening very 

 small, round. Body elongate, limbs moderate. Digits moderate, 

 inner well developed, webbed at the base ; eleven lamellae under the 

 median digits, the two or three proximal divided. Scales uniformly 

 granular, the granules larger on the snout, largest and flat on the 

 i)elly. Eostral quadrangular, more than twice as broad as high ; 



