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larger, imbricate, with a median series of large, transversely dilated 

 plates. Brownish grey above, uniform or with more or less distinct 

 brown and whitish spots ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. (Theo- 

 bald mentions 19 pores on each thigh in his Doryura gaudama, which 

 appears to me, from the short description, identical with, and the 

 male of, the present species.) 



From snout to vent 2-3 inches ; tail 2-6. 



Hob. Sikhim, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, South 

 Pacific Islands. 



A number of specimens (from Burma and Java), which I have 

 been able to examine since the publication of the Catalogue of Lizards 

 have convinced me that the characters upon which I separated 

 H. blanfordii from H. garnoti are insufficient. 



Hemidactylus mortoni, Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. x, p. 32, and 

 Cat. Kept. Brit. Ind. p. 78, is probably allied to, or identical with, 

 one of the three preceding species, but the description is insuffi- 

 cient for ensuring its recognition : 



" Back covered with granular scales, with a scattered tubercle here 

 and there, just perceptibly larger than the rest. Thumb well de- 

 veloped. Colour dark brown, mottled pepper and salt, with black 

 spots and small white rosettes of 6 white scales each. Tail barred 

 with black above. Length 3 '50 inches." 



Described from an immature male taken at Teikgyie, Eaugoon. 







99. Hemidactylus platyurus. 



Stellio platyurus, Schneid. Amph. Phys. ii. p. 30. 

 Nycteridium sckneideri, Giinth. Rept. B. I. p. 111. 

 Nycteridium himalayanum, Anders. J. A. S. B. xl, 1871, p. 15. 

 Nycteridium platyurus, Theob. Cat. p. 79. 

 Hemidactylus platyurus, Boideng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 143. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, 1 1 the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; ear- 

 opening small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderate, much 

 depressed ; a cutaneous expansion from axilla to groin, and 

 another bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Digits strongly dilated, 

 about half- webbed, inner well developed ; 5 or 6 lamellae under 

 the inner, and 7 to 9 under the median digits. L^pper surfaces 

 covered with uniform small granules, largest on the snout. Kostral 

 four-sided, not quite so broad as deep, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; 

 9 to 11 upper and 7 or 8 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or 

 pentagonal, in contact with two large chin-shields, followed by t\vo 

 smaller ones. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. 

 Male with an uninterrupted series of femoral pores, 17 or 18 on 

 each side. Tail much depressed, flat beneath, with sharp denti- 

 culated lateral edge, covered above with uniform small granules, 

 inferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 above, marbled with darker ; generally a dark streak from eye to 

 shoulder ; white beneath. 



