180 GECKONIBiE. 



quadrangular, not quite twice as broad as high, with a small notch 

 in the middle of its upper border; nostril pierced between the 

 rostral, the first upper labial, and seven small nasals, the anterior 

 being much the largest ; sixteen to eighteen upper and fourteen or 

 fifteen lower labials ; mental small, subtriangular, separating the 

 inner labials ; no regular chin-shields, but larger scales passing 

 gradually into the granules of the throat. Tail cylindrical, covered 

 with uniform small flat scales arranged in verticils. Male with 

 an irregular patch of very numerous prsBanal pores, and a sort of 

 pouch in the integument of the thigh posteriorly, near the tibia. 

 Yellowish grey, with darker and lighter longitudinal bands on the 

 back ; flanks and limbs marbled with darker ; lower surfaces dirty 

 white, with scattered blackish dots. 



Total length 205 millim. 



Head 34 „ 



Width of head 27 „ 



Body 91 „ 



Fore limb 49 „ 



Hind limb 60 „ 



Tail 80 „ 



New Caledonia. 



6. Rhacodactylus ciliatus. 



Correlophus ciliatua, Guichen. Mem. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherb. xii. 1866, 



p. 249, pi. viii. ; Bavay, Cat. Mept. N. CaUd. p. 12. 

 Rhacodactylus ciliatus, Bouleng. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 128. 



Head very large, oviform, very distinct from neck; forehead 

 deeply concave ; snout much longer than the distance between the 

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

 orbit ; ear-opening moderately large, suboval, horizontal, slightly 

 oblique. Body and limbs moderately elongate, depressed ; digits 

 moderate, not very unequal, strongly denticulated on the sides, 

 half-webbed ; the web, however, almost entirely absent between the 

 two outer toes. A strong fold of the skin bordering the hind limb 

 posteriorly ; a fold of the skin extends from the eye to the anterior 

 part of the back, where it is separated from its fellow by a rather 

 narrow space ; a slight fold from axilla to groin. Head covered 

 with granular scales, largest on the snout ; rostral quadrangular, 

 twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between. the rostral, the first upper labial, and six small nasals ; upper 

 labials thirteen, lower twelve or thirteen ; mental small, wedge- 

 shaped ; no chin-shields. Dorsal scales granular, intermixed with 

 larger conical ones on the sides of the vertebral line ; the upper 

 eyelid and the fold on the side of the head and anterior part of the 

 back with long ciliated scales. Throat covered with small granular 

 scales ; belly with small, slightly imbricated smooth roundish scales. 



