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Zoological Miscellany, 
Descriptions of two hitherto unrecorded species of Reptiles 
from New Zealand ; presented to the British Museum 
hy Dr. Dieffenhach. By J. E. Gray. 
Hatteria. Fam. Agamidce. Head quadrangular, covered with small 
scales ; throat with a cross fold ; nape and back with a crest of compressed 
spines : body covered with small scales ; belly and under side of the tail 
with large, squarish, keelless, flat scales, placed in cross series: tail com- 
pressed, triangular, covered with small scales, and with a ridge of large 
compressed spines : legs strong ; toes 5.5, short, strong, cylindrical, slight- 
ly webbed at the base, covered above and below with small scales; claws 
short, blunt : femoral pores none : preanal scales small, a few of them are 
pierced in the centre. 
Hatteria punctata^ n. s. Olive ; sides and limbs with minute white specks, 
beneath yellowish : the spines of the nuchal and dorsal crests yellow, of the 
caudal brown ; tlie scales of the back, head, tail and limbs small, granular, 
nearly uniform ; the irregular folds in the skin are fringed at the top 
with a series of rather large scales ; an oblique ridge of larger scales on 
each side of the base of the tail, and a few shorter longitudinal ridges of 
rather smaller ones on each side of the upper part of the tail. 
Inhabits New Zealand. 
Dr. Dieffenbach observes that the species “ lives in holes, especially on 
the slopes of the sand hills of the shore. The older missionaries say it was ' 
formerly very common, and the natives lived upon it, but for the last fifty 
years it has been scarcely ever seen. This specimen was found on a small 
rocky island, two miles from the coast, in the Bay of Plenty, and was given 
to Dr. Dieffenbach alive, but shortly died, as it would not eat anything 
that was offered to it. It is extremely sluggish in captivity, and could be 
handled without any attempt at resistance or biting.’’ The natives called 
it “ Tuatera,’^ 
Naultinus, Gray, Brit. Mus. Fam. Geckotidee. Toes 5.5, free, base 
dilated, thick, rather dilated, last joint elongated, thick, compressed, free, 
clawed, all with entire cross scales beneath ; thumbs similar, but the base 
is shorter, and femoral pore none ; scales small, granular, subequal above 
and below : tail tapering, round, with scales like the body. 
This genus is most nearly allied to Gehyra, Gray, but differs from it in 
the end of the toes not being compressed. There is a second species in the 
Museum collection — N. Pacifica. 
1. Naultinus elegans, Gray, n. s. Thumbs clawed : green, rather paler 
beneath ; streak along the under lip, the ears, two arched stripes on the top 
of the head, irregular shaped spots on each side of the back and hind legs, 
interrupted streak along each side of the body and tail, white, with a narrow 
black edge, with a cross series of 3 compressed larger scales at the base of 
the tail. 
Inhabits New Zealand ; Auckland. Mus. Brit, and Zool. Soc. 
Hollow trees, and runs about between the ferns. Called “ Kakariki.” 
