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Show 1883.] GECKOS OF NEW CALEDONIA. 129 5. EURYDACTYLUS, Sauvage. 13. EURYDACTYLUS VIEILLARDI. (Plate XXII. figs. 7, 7 a, 7 b.) *Platydactylus vieillardi, Bavay, Cat. p. 10. *Eurydectylus viellardi, Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii- p- 70. Head not depressed, much longer than broad; snout long, obtuse, with slightly distinct canthus rostralis and scarcely oblique loreal region, measuring nearly twice the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, or once and three fourths the diameter of the orbit; pupil vertical, not round as stated by Bavay; ear-opening minute, horizontal. Body slightly compressed, the back keeled. Limbs short, digits strongly dilated, free. Scales of upper surfaces large, separated by intervals forming reticulated lines, much like crocodile-skin ; the shields on the head larger, subsymmetrically arranged. Rostral twice as broad as high, with distinct median division above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial and two nasals; ten upper and nine lower labials; mental small, triangular, the adjacent labials meeting behind ; a few irregular chin-shields. Throat covered with small granules, with two strong transverse and two longitudinal folds. Belly covered with rather large flat granules. [Male with a triangular patch of about fifty praeanal pores1]. Tail cylindrical, prehensive, covered with squarish juxtaposed scales arranged in verticils. Upper surfaces reddish-yellow; the interspaces between the scales forming blackish reticulated lines; lower surfaces uniform whitish. milbm. Total length 91 Head 15 Width of head 9 Body : 39 Fore limb 14 Hind limb 18 Tail 37 Described from a female specimen in the Paris Museum. 6. GYMNODACTYLUS, Spix. 14. GYMNODACTYLUS ARNOUXI. (Plate XXII. figs. 8, 8 a.) Gymnodactylus arnouxii, A. Dum. Cat. Meth. Rept. p. 44, Arch. Mus. viii. p. 479, pi. 17. f. 5 ; *Bavay, Cat. p. 13 ; Peters & Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xii. p. 372. Heteronota pelagica, Girard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, |J. 197, and U.S. Explor. Exped., Herp. p. 306. Gymnodactylus girardi, Steindacbn. Novara, Rept. p. 15, pi. 2. f. 3. Gymnodactylus multicarinalus, Giinth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (4) x. 1872, p. 421, and in Brenchley, Curacoa, p. 404, pi. 24. f. A. Gymnodactylus (Heteronota) arfakianus, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 129. Head rather large, oviform ; snout a little longer than the distance 1 Bavay, I. c. |
