GECKO JAPONICUS. 103 



Gecko smithii. 



Gecko smithii, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 57. 



" Black, with minute white-tipped tubercles ; back with cross bands of white spots, the 

 two front bands lunate ; tail with eight white spots : the first small, the next round, the rest 

 oblong, longer towards the tip, last spot subapical; beneath grey, brown-marbled; head 

 grey, occiput with three diverging, and the sides of the throat with two black streaks." 



This species has been described by Dr. J. E. Gray from a specimen in Fort Pitt Museiim ; 

 it is said to be from Prince of "Wales Island (Pulo Pinang). 



Gecko monarchus. 



Platydactylus monarchus, Dum. ^ Bibr. Erpet. gen. iii. p. 335. Cantor, Catal. Mai. Rept. p. 19. 

 Gecko monarchus, Ch-ay, Lizards, p. 161. 



Back covered vdth small flat gi'anulations and with numerous small, rounded, conical 

 tubercles, arranged in ii-regular longitudinal series; scales of the middle of the belly in 

 about forty-four longitudinal series ; prteanal and femoral pores thirty-two, disposed in two 

 curved, continuous series ; twelve upper and eleven lower labials ; the front pair of chin- 

 shields are much longer than the first lower labial. Head longer than broad. Tail with 

 band-like, narrow, irregular subcaudals. Above buff' or ash-coloured, or reddish brown, with 

 from eight to twelve pairs of irregularly rounded, approximate, brownish-black spots along 

 the vertebral line ; head, limbs, and sides with numerous, more or less distinct, irregular 

 dark-brown spots ; the tail of immature specimens whitish, with brown rings. 



This species attains to a length of 7 inches ; the newly-hatched animal is 2^ inches long. 

 It is foimd on the Philippine Islands, in Amboyna, Borneo, on the Malayan Peninsula, and 

 in Ceylon. Cantor says that this species possesses the power of changing its ground-colour 

 in a greater degree than any other Gecko. It is very numerous at Pinang, swarming at 

 night in rooms, occasionally giving out a sound resembling the monosyllable " Tok," repeated 

 six or eight times Avith increased celerity. They are pugnacious among themselves, two or 

 more sometimes fighting for an insect. 



Gecko japonicus. 



Platydactylus japonicus, Dum. ^ Bibr. Erpet. gen. iii. p. 337. 



jamori, Schleg. Faun. Jap., Rept. p. 103. pi. 2. figs. 1-4. 



Gecko chinensis, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 57. 



Hemidactylus nanus, Ca7itor, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, ix. p. 482. 



Back minutely granulated, with numerous very small, rounded, conical tubercles, arranged 

 in irregular series ; scales of tlie middle of the belly in about forty-two longitudinal series ; 



