18 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the 



Above ash-coloured with numerous pale orange spots ; beneath yel- 

 lowish white. Between the scales of the back 12 longitudinal rows 

 of large distant tubercles, and six similar on the tail ; the latter with 

 minute scales beneath. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula. 

 Philippine Islands, 



Java, Tenasserim, Bur mah, Bengal, Coromandel Coast. 

 • On the Malayan peninsula this species appears to be less numerous 

 than in the Tenasserim Provinces, where its shrill cry, "To-ke" is 

 nightly heard in houses. The male has two tubercular scales on each 

 side of the root of the tail. The largest individual observed was of 

 the following dimensions : 



1 &"■■ 



Length of the head, If inch. 



Ditto ditto trunk, 4-| 



Ditto ditto tail, 4| 



Entire length lOf inch. 



Platydactyhjs stentor. N. S. 



Syn.— "Toke" of the Malays. 



Above light bluish grey with numerous irregular blackish spots, 

 forming on the vertex an angle like an inverted V., and on the neck 

 short oblique lateral bands. Beneath pearl-coloured. On the back and 

 sides 1 longitudinal rows of large distant lenticular scales, and G simi- 

 lar on the tail ; the latter with scutella beneath. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



In form and size this species closely resembles the preceding, from 

 which it however differs in the following particulars. The oval nostrils 

 are bordered in front by three scales, viz. the first upper-labial, a smaller 

 rectangular, and a larger pentagonal scale, both of which latter are 

 situated between the nostril and the rostral. Above the nostrils are 

 surrounded by two smaller irregular triangular, and behind by a narrow 

 crescent-shaped scale. Of labial scales there are 14 above, 12 below. 

 There are about 72 teeth in each jaw. The eye is very large ; pupil 

 black dentilated ; iris silvery bluish grey. The ear is very large, ob- 



