168 GECKONID^. 



or five small shields ; nine to eleven upper and nine or ten lower 

 labials ; mental small, siibtriangular, shorter than the adjacent labials, 

 followed by a median chin-shield ; a few other irregular chin-shields 

 gradually passing into the granules of the throat. Prseanal pores in 

 two angular series ; these series in contact and containing each eleven 

 to sixteen pores. Tail cylindrical, covered with small, equal, flat 

 scales arranged in verticils. Upper surfaces brownish grey, with 

 more or less irregular dark brown bands across the back ; sides 

 with more or less distinct small round whitish spots ; a more or less 

 indistinct dark streak on the side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. 



Total length 117 miUim. 



Head 17 „ 



Width of head 13 „ 



Body 49 „ 



Fore limb 19 „ 



Hind limb 26 „ 



Tail 51 „ 



New Caledonia. 



a-b, c-e. S & hgr. New Caledonia. J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. (Types.) 



10. Lepidodactylus sauvagii. 



Hemidactylus (Peripia) cyclura {non Gilnth.), Sauvage, Bull. Soc. 



PhUom. (7) iii. 1878, p. 72. 

 Lepidodactylus sauvagii, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 122 



pi. xxii. fig. 6. 



This species resembles exactly the preceding in the proportions, 

 scutellation, size, and colour, but differs in the much narrower digits, 

 and the presence of a singlg series of prseanal pores ; this is com- 

 posed of twenty-three pores. 



New Caledonia. 



33. NAULTINUS. 



Naultinus, part., Grai/, Zool. Misc. p. 72, and Cat. Liz. p. 169, 

 Heterophobs, Fischer, Abh. Naturw. Ver. Jiretn. vii. 1882, p. 236. 



Digits free, feebly dilated, gradually narrowing distaUy, clawed, 

 with a series of transverse lameUse under their entire length. 

 Dorsal scales uniformly granular or intermixed with enlarged 

 tubercles. Pupil vertical. Males with prseanal and femoral porps. 



New Zealand. 



1. Naultinus elegans. (Plate XIV. fig. 3 *). 



Naultinus elegans, Gray, Cat. p. 169. 

 Naultinus grayii, Gray, I. c. p. 170. 

 Naultinus punctatus, Gray, I. c. p. 170. 



* Lower surface of foot. 



