24 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the 



scales ; ears very small ; pupil as in the preceding species ; thumbs very 

 small, femoral pores 26 to 28, disposed on a slightly angular line. 



Young and Adult. — 'Buff or ash-coloured, with or without brown 

 spots ; some with one or two brown lateral bands, commencing one 

 above the other from the muzzle, interrupted or continued to the tail ; 

 the latter in some with indistinct brown rings. Beneath whitish or 

 buff. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula, Pinang, Singapore. 



Amboyna, Timor, Java, Marianne Islands, Ceylon, Bengal 

 Assam,* South Africa, Madagascar. 



In the Malayan valleys and hills this small species is very numerous. 

 It is of fierce habits, like several other Geckonidce, destroying its own 

 species. Its normal colour appears to be greyish, which it however has 

 in its power to change. The largest individuals observed were of the 

 following dimensions : 



Length of the head, Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 2 



Ditto ditto tail, 2 



Entire length, 4f inches. 



Hemidactylus platyurus, (Schneider.) 



Svn. — Stellio platyurus, Schneider. 

 Lacerta sclmeideriaua, Shaw. 

 Gecko platyurus, Merrem. 

 Hemidactylus platyurus, Wiegiuanu. 



AVagler. 



Hemidactj'lus marginatus, Cuvier, apud < Wiegmann. 



I Gray. 

 Platyurus schneideriauus, Gray : Catal. 



Sides of the body and posterior margin of the thighs with a loose 

 membrane ; tail tapering, depressed, with sharp, fringed margins, with 

 scuta beneath ; toes webbed half their length ; chin with 4 pentagonal 

 broad scales, placed in pairs, behind each other : ,'- 6 femoral pores placed 

 on a continued line. 



Young and Adult. — Above ash-coloured, in some with a greyish brown 

 lateral band, from the muzzle continued to the tail ; the latter with 

 indistinct brownish transversal bands ; others irregularly spotted and 



* Specimens in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 



