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femoral pores, the number of scale rows across the belly is about 
fifteen less; the tubercles are fewer and much less prominent 
and the very characteristic markings of G. monarchus are 
wanting. 
The type specimen was captured with the assistance of Mr. 
Clark Burks, of Sumagui, Mindoro; two eggs were found at 
the same time. 
Oshima? has described Gekko kikuchii from Botel Tobago, 
Formosa, which seems to vary from Gekko monarchus in much 
the same way as does the present species. Although no speci- 
mens of the species are at hand for comparison the following 
differences are evident: Gekko mindorensis has many more 
femoral pores, 55 to 64, while 48 are recorded in G. kikuchii; 
the limbs are longer in the present species, and the basal web 
is wanting on the feet in both sexes. 
Siaphos kempi sp. nov. Fig. 3. 
Type.—No. 2016, E. H. Taylor collection; collected April 23, 
1916, at Naujan Lake, Mindoro, by E. H. Taylor. 
Description of type.—Head short, snout blunt, not especially 
depressed; rostral covering tip of snout, the part visible above 
much less than the depth of snout at the posterior border of 
rostral; no supranasals; frontonasal large, the suture with 
rostral equal to, or smaller than, that with nasal, and slightly 
larger than that with frontal; prefrontals much reduced, separ- 
ated, not in contact with first supraocular; frontal moderate, 
about equal to frontoparietal in length, as long as its distance 
from end of snout, in contact with two supraoculars and first 
superciliary; frontoparietals fused in a single scale a little 
broader than long; interparietal triangular, a little wider than 
frontal, but shorter; parietals forming a suture behind inter-. 
parietal ; four pairs of nuchals; nasal pierced medially by nostril, 
touching a single labial; two frenals, both higher than wide; 
four supraoculars, last longest, second widest; eight superci- 
liaries; several much enlarged temporals; seven upper labials, 
fifth below center of eye; five or six lower labials; mental 
larger than rostral; ear opening obliquely oval, moderately large; 
eye nearer tip of snout than ear opening; limbs small, barely 
touching when adpressed; digits not or but slightly compressed ; 
20 lamellze under fourth toe; two enlarged preanals; median 
row of scales under tail slightly widened; 22 scale rows around 
body ; scales smooth, the median dorsal rows widest. 
* Philip. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1912) 7, 241. 
