Q 11 C253X NH ^V 71$ PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOURTH SERIES October 20, 1977 Vol. XLI, No. 8, pp. 253-265; 1 fig., 1 table. LIZARDS OF THE GENUS LEPIDODACTYLUS (GEKKONIDAE) FROM THE INDO-AUSTRALIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES By Walter C. Brown* Menlo College, Menlo Park, California and Fred Parker Wildlife Section, District Administration, Konedobu, Territory of New Guinea Abstract: An annotated list and a key to species of the genus Lepidodactylus recorded from the Indo-Australian Archipelago are presented; four new species (L. magnus, L. mutahi, L. novaeguinea, and L. orientates) from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are described. The relationships and distribution of the species are discussed. Introduction While revising Philippine species of the genus Lepidodactylus, one of us (Brown) examined samples, including types of extra-Philippine species. In the course of these comparisons, it became evident that the Indo-Australian species of Lepidodactylus , with the exception of the lugubris-woodfordi complex, comprise two groups distinct from the species in the Philip-pines. Also recent extensive collections from New Guinea and the Solomons include previ-ously undescribed species. It seems most ap-propriate to present these results in a report separate from our monograph, currently in prep-aration, on the gekkonid lizards of the Philip-pines. * Research Associate, Department of Herpetology, Cali-fornia Academy of Sciences. Acknowledgments We are deeply indebted to Drs. A. G. C. Grandison of the British Museum (BMNH), Jean Guibe of the Museum National d'Histoire Na-turelle, Paris (MNHN), K. Klemmer of the Senckenberg Museum (SM), W. R. Heyerof the United States National Museum of Natural His-tory (USNM), E. E. Williams of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). H. Marx of the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), R. G. Zweifel of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), C. J. McCoy of the Carnegie Museum (CM), Paul Webber of the Australian Museum (AM), J. Menzies of the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), and N. Kwapena and M. C. Downes of the Department of Ag-riculture, Stock, and Fisheries, Papua New Guinea as curators for the Papua New Guinea Museum (DASF or PNGM), for the privilege of [253]
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