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Show 120 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [Mar. 6, 3. LEPIDODACTYLUS, Fitz. Four species occur in New Caledonia. I. Body moderately elongate, the fore limb measuring more than half the distance from axilla to groin. A. Tail flat inferiorly, with sharpish lateral edge. Four transverse rows of small chin-shields; males witha series of femoral pores 1. lugubris. B. Tail cylindrical. Digits strongly dilated; males with two series of praeanal pores 2. cyclurus. Digits very feebly dilated; males with a single series of praeanal pores 3. sauvagii. II. Body much elongate, the fore limb not measuring half the distance from axilla to groin. Inner digit rudimental 4. crepuscular is. 3. LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS. (Plate XXII. figs. 3, 3 a.) Platydactylus lugubris, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii. p. 304 ; Jacquinot, Voy. Pole Sud, Saur. pi. 1. fig. 1 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. 16. Lepidodactylus lugubris, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 16. Amydosaurus lugubris, Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 162. Hemidactylus meyeri, Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. xvi. 1859, p. 47. Peripia cantoris, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 110; Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beug. 1872, p. 103. Gecko moestus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 13. * Gymnodactylus candeloti, Bavay, Cat. p. 13. Peripia meyeri, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 594. Peripia mysorensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 129. Peripia lugubris, Peters & Doria, An. Mus. Genov. xiii. p. 371. * Platydactylus (Lejndodactylus) crepuscularis, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) hi- p. 69 (nee Bavay). Head much longer than broad ; snout subacuininate, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and a half the diameter of the orbit; forehead with a median groove ; ear-opening small, round. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, inner well developed, with a rudiment of web; inferior lamellae numerous, seven or eight under tbe median fingers, eight or nine under the median toes. Upper surfaces and throat with very minute granules, a little larger on the snout; scales on the belly much larger, flat, juxtaposed or slightly imbricate. Rostral quadrangular, broad; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and two or three nasals, the upper separated from its fellow by one or three small internasals; eleven to thirteen upper and ten or eleven lower labials ; mental small, smaller than the adjacent labials ; four transverse rows of small chin-shields. Femoral pores present in the males, forming a long series angular mesially, 25 altogether. Tail flat inferiorly, with sharpish, sometimes feebly serrated lateral edge caudal scales small, flat, equal. Upper surfaces light pinkish grey |
