35. EHACODACTYLUS. 179 



with very large, unequal, rough tubercles confluent with the cranial 

 ossification ; hinder part of head, body and limbs with very small, 

 equal granular scales ; granules smallest on the throat. Rostral 

 broad, quadrangular, with distinct median cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between the first labial and five or six small nasals, the anterior 

 being much the largest ; nine to eleven upper labials ; mental small, 

 triangular ; nine to eleven infralabials, gradually decreasing in size, 

 inner pair nearly three times as high as broad, in contact behind 

 the mental ; a row of large scales behind the labials. Body covered 

 with uniform small granular scales. Tail cylindrical, with uniform 

 small flat scales arranged in verticils. Male with an irregular 

 patch of very numerous praeanal pores. Head brown ; the rest of 

 the upper surfaces grey, dotted with darker ; lower surfaces dirty 

 white, with scattered grey dots. 



Total length 308 millim. 



Head 38 



Width of head 24 



Body 115 



Fore limb 50 



Hind Umb 66 



Tail 155 



New Caledonia. 

 a-b. J . New Caledonia. Gr. A. Boulenger, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Rhacodactylus auriculatus. 



Platydactylus auriculatus, Bavay, Cat. Rept. N. CaUd. p. 6. 

 Ceratolophus hexaoeros, Bocage, Jorn. 8c. Lisb. iv. 1873, p. 205. 

 Platydactylus (Ceratolophus) auriculatus, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. 



(7) iii. 1878, p. 67. 

 Ceratolophus auriculatus, Bocage, eod. loo. xxx. 1881, p. 130. 

 Rhacodactylus auriculatus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 127. 



Head subpyramidal ; snout longer than the distance between the 

 orbit and the ear-opening, once and two thirds the diameter of the 

 orbit, slightly swollen at the end ; interorbital space and forehead 

 deeply concave ; hinder part of head with knob-like prominences, 

 viz. one above the ear-opening, formed by the free end of the 

 quadrate, and five others formed by the extremities of the parietal 

 bones ; the borders and sutures of the latter form prominent ridges ; 

 the ends of the postfrontal bones and mandible also prominent ; 

 ear-opening large, oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderately 

 elongate, rather depressed ; digits not very broadly dilated, not very 

 unequal, with a very slight rudiment of web, which is altogether 

 absent between the two outer toes. Throat and sides of neck with 

 a few irregular folds ; a slight fold bordering the hind limb poste- 

 riorly. Head and body covered with subequal small granular 

 scales, flattened on the belly, smallest on the throat. Rostral 



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