294 S A U R I A. 



The genus includes a portion of the " HomoMpidotes fissipMes, 

 Pentonyx" of Dumeril & Bibron : their Platydactylus duvaucelii belongs 

 to it. Naultinus pacificus, of Gray (Zool. Misc. 1842, 58). is a true 

 Geliyra ; the species referred to under the same name in DiefFenbach's 

 " Travels into New Zealand, II, 1843, 203," and subsequently called 

 N, granulatus^^ may, after all, prove to be identical with the species 

 described below, but since its identity cannot be established upon the 

 published documents, we had to resort to a new name to record the 

 latter. Naultinus hrevidactylus, Gri'^'J? ^^^ N. maculatiis^ Glray, place 

 us in the same perplexity towards the species we are going to describe, 

 the toes of which being anything but short. At any rate, all the 

 species named by J. E. Gray, and referred to the group of brown colors 

 in his genus Naidtinus, belong to the genus HojjhdadyluSy which is a 

 Platydactylian. 



As to Gecko 2^<^cifious, Gray (Brit. Mus.), we cannot otherwise ac- 

 count for except as a synonym to Naultinus pacificics, of the same 

 writer, and hence goes to Geliyra also. 



HOPLODACTTLUS POMAKII, Grd. 



(Plate XVIII, figs. 10-16.) 



Char. spec. — Scutis mentalihus nuUis, et in loco eorum scutelUs mini- 

 mis. Squamis abdominalihus minutissimis, suhcircularihus vel suh- 

 rJiomhoidalibus. Supra fuscoruhro, cum maculis atris elongatis, 

 plus minusve confluentihus^ in series longitudinales oixlinatis; infra 

 cinereo, unicolori. 



Spec. Char. — No mental shields, instead of which ^ome very small 

 plates. Abdominal scales very small, subcircular, or subrhomboid. 

 Upper regions of a dark reddish ground, over which are arranged, 

 longitudinally elongated, black blotches, more or less confluent. 

 Beneath greyish, unicolor. 



Syn. — Hoplodactylus pomarii, Grd. in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. November, 

 1857. 



Descr. — The head is well developed, elongated, depressed, subcon- 



* Catal. Lizz. Brit. Mus. 1845, 273. 



