. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 180 BULLETIN 58^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Genus PEROPUSa Wiegmann. 1835. Peropus Wiegmann, Nova Ada Acad. Leop. XVII. Tt. 1, p. 238 (type, H. 7nutilatus). 1843. Dactyloperus Fitzinger, Syst. Kept., p. 103 (type, M. rarirgatus). 1845. Peripia Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 158 (type, H. peronii=mutilatus). 1883. Chalinocnemis Duces, La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (type, H. navarri—muti- latus). 1883. Spasmocncmis , La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (same type). Wiegmann's genus Peropus of 1S35 antedates that of Lay and Bennett for a ge
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. 180 BULLETIN 58^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Genus PEROPUSa Wiegmann. 1835. Peropus Wiegmann, Nova Ada Acad. Leop. XVII. Tt. 1, p. 238 (type, H. 7nutilatus). 1843. Dactyloperus Fitzinger, Syst. Kept., p. 103 (type, M. rarirgatus). 1845. Peripia Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p. 158 (type, H. peronii=mutilatus). 1883. Chalinocnemis Duces, La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (type, H. navarri—muti- latus). 1883. Spasmocncmis , La Naturaleza, VI, p. 312 (same type). Wiegmann's genus Peropus of 1S35 antedates that of Lay and Bennett for a genus of fishes, as the Zoology of the Blossom, in which the latter occurs for the first time, was not published until LS39.'' PEROPUS MUTIlATUSc (Wiegmann). 1834. 1857. Hemidactylus viutilatus Wiegmann, Herpet. ilex., I, p. 54 (type-locality, Manila) (corrected for H. prisiinrus, op. cit., p. 20).—Hemidactylus {Peropi(s) m^;/^Za^^ts Wiegmann, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. Carol., XVII, Pt. 1, 1835, p. 238.—Gehyra mutilata Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 148 (Mascarene Islands to Mexico).—Peropvs vmt Hat us Gikard, Herp. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1858, p. 277 (Philippines).—Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXI, no. 1174, 1899, p. 796 (Hawaiian Islands). Dactyloperus insxdensis Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1857, p. 195; author's separate, ji. 5 (type-locality. Sandwich Islands). 1883. Hemidactylus navarri , La Naturaleza, VI, p. 311, pi. viia (type- locality, Tangancicuara, Michoacan, Mexico). For complete synonymy see Stejneger, Land lleptiles of the Hawaiian Islands.'' Description (figs. 171-173).—Adult female; Bergen Museum; For- mosa; von der Ohe, collector. Rostral broader than high, with a median cleft above, in contact with two supranasals and a minute gramde between the latter; first supralabial in contact with the lower postnasal and reaching nostril; nostril between rostral, first supralabial and three scales behind and above, the upper one of which is l
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