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Above ash-coloured, labial scales whitish, each with a brown spot ; 

 beneath whitish. Iris silvery grey, spotted with brown. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



Isle of France. 



Of two individuals, captured at different times in my house in the 

 valley of Pinang, the larger was of the following dimensions : 

 Length of the head, Of inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, I 



Ditto ditto tail, 2f 



Eutire length, 4f inches. 



Hemidactylus coct^i, Dum. and Bibr. 



Thumbs well developed, nailed ;* back with minute granular scales ; 

 in some individuals with a few larger ones on the sides ; tail broad at 

 the root, tapering, a little depressed, with from 4 to 15 indistinct rings 

 and 6 series of minute spines ; beneath with scuta ; chin with 4 larger 

 scales ; the central pair elongate pentagonal ; male with 1 2 femoral 

 pores ; pupil as in Hemidactylus peronii. 

 Above ash-coloured, whitish beneath. 

 Habit. — Pinang. 



Bengal, Bombay. 

 Of two males observed in houses in the valley of Pinang, the larger 

 was of the following dimensions : 



Length of the head, If inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 2f 



Ditto ditto tail, 3f 



Entire length, 7 inches. 

 Hemidactylus frenatus, Schlegel, MS. 



Syn. — Hemidactylus frenatus, Schlegel, apud Dum. and Bibr. 

 Hemidactylus lateralis j Q R M 



Hemidactylus qumquenneatus, J J 



Back with some larger granular scales ; tail rounded, tapering above, 

 with 6 series of small spines, scuta beneath ; chin with 4 or 6 larger 



* Mr. Gray gives the present species as a Syn. of Boltalia subl&vis, Gray, (Catalogue, 

 p. 158.) As the latter species is characterised as having' the thumbs " clawless," it 

 cannot be identical with H. coct&i. 



