102 SAURIA. 



Tubercles numerous ; frout chin-shields not longer than the first 



lower labial; back marbled with brown G.japonicus, p. lOS. 



Tubercles very small, in six or eight rather irregiilar series; chin- 

 shields shorter than the first lower labial G. sivinhonis, p. 104. 



** Back imiformly granular G. subpalmatiis, p. 104. 



Gecko guttatus. 



Lacerta gecko, L. Syst. Nat. i. p. 365. 



teres et G. verticillatus, Laur. p. 44. 



guttatus, Baud. iv. p. 122. tab. 49. 



verus, Merr. Amph. p. 42. Gi-ay, Lizards, p. 160. 



aunulatus, Kuhl, Beitr. Zool. p. 132. 



Platydactylus guttatus, Dum. ^ Bibr. Erpet. gen. iii. p. 328. 

 Gecko reevesii. Gray, Lizards, p. 161. 



Back covered with small flat granulations, and with about twelve longitudinal series of 

 rounded conical tubercles ; scales of the middle of the belly in about thirty-eight longitudinal 

 series; prseanal pores about twenty-four, in a slightly angular series; fom-teen upper and 

 eleven lower labials ; the front pair of chin-shields are not longer than the first lower labial. 

 Head depressed, triangular, not much longer than broad. Tail without large subcaudals, 

 with transverse series of tubercles across its back. Above ash-coloured, with numerous round 

 pale-orange spots. 



This is one of the most common species in British India, in Siam, Cochinchina, and 

 Southern China; it is found on numerous islands of the Archipelago, but appears to be 

 entirely absent in Ceylon ; it frequents houses, and attains to a length of 10-12 inches. 



Gecko stentor. (Plate XL fig. A.) 



Platydactylus stentor, Cantor, Catal. Mai. Rept. p. 18. 



Back covered with small flat granulations and with ten longitudinal series of mamilliform 

 tubercles ; scales of the middle of the belly in about thirty-four longitudinal series ; prseanal 

 pores thirteen (all together), in a slightly angular series. Nostril separated from the rostral 

 plate by a pair of small shields ; thii'teen upper and lower labials ; the front pair of chin- 

 shields are longer than the first lower labial. Head depressed, triangular, much longer 

 than broad. Tail with a double series of enlarged subcaudals. Above light bluish grey, 

 with numerous irregular blackish spots, on the vertex an angular mark like an inverted V, 

 and on the neck short oblique lateral bands. 



The typical specimen, 16 inches long, and obtained from the villa on the Pentland Hills 

 at Pinang, is the only one known to have been found ; it is in the British ISIuseum. The 

 species, therefore, appears to be very scarce. 



