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Show 1883.] GECKOS O F N E W CALEDONIA. 121 or brownish, generally with a series of small blackish or purplish-brown spots on each side of tbe vertebral line ; a purplish-brown streak from tbe end of the snout to the ear, passing through the eye ; labials generally finely dotted with brown; lower surfaces white, immaculate. millim. Total length 81 Head II Width of head 8 Body 33 Fore limb 12 Hind limb 17 Tail 37 This widely distributed species extends from tbe Malay peninsula throughout the Indian archipelago, N ew Guinea, and the islands of the Pacific. From New Caledonia I have examined one specimen, presented by M . Delacour to the Paris Museum, and described by Dr. Sauvage a? Lepidodactylus crepuscularis, Bavay. One of the characters pointed out by Dr. Sauvage as distinguishing the supposed latter species from L. lugubris, viz. the presence of a large gland on each side of the neck, is an individual (apparently pathological) character, and occurs in many species of the family Geckonidse. The Gymnodactylus candeloti of Bavay, of which I have examined the type, is based on a badly preserved specimen of the present species. 4. LEPIDODACTYLUS CYCLURUS. (Plate XXII. fig. 4.) * Platydactylus pacificus, Bavay, Cat. p. 8 (nee Gray). * Peripia cyclura, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x. p. 422, and in Brenchley's ' Curacoa,' p. 407. * Lepidodactylus neocaledonicus, Bocage, Jorn. Sc. Lisb. iv. p. 206. * Hemidactylus (Peripia) bavayi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philoin. (7) iii. p. 71. Head oviform, longer than broad; snout a little longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and one third the diameter of the orbit; ear-opening moderate, roundish. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderate, inner well developed, with a slight rudiment of web ; inferior lamellse numerous, ten or eleven, all divided by a median groove. Upper surfaces and throat covered with very small granular scales, larger on the snout; abdominal scales larger, subimbricate. Rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as high; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and four or five small nasals, the upper separated from its fellow by three or five small internasals ; nine to eleven upper and nine or ten lower labials ; mental small, subtriangular, shorter than the adjacent labials, followed by a median chin-shield ; a few other irregular chin-shields gradually passing into the granules of the throat. Males with two angular series of praeanal pores; these series in contact and containing each 11 to 16 pores. Tail cylindrical, covered with small, equal, flat scales arranged in verticils. Upper surfaces brownish- 9* |