16 Catalogue of Reptiles inhabiting the 



heart, are on record. The eggs are white, the shell hard, of a cylindri- 

 cal form, upwards of 3 inches in length, and about 1^ inch in diameter. 



Crocodilus porosus, Schneider. 



Syn, — Crocodili Ceylonici ex ovo prodiens, Scba. 



"Tideman, Oppel, Liboschitz. 

 Merren. 



Bory de St. Vincent. 



r< i • *. n • i Fitzineer. 



Cr. biporcatus, Cuvier, apud ^ Lesson 



Guerin. 



Wagler. 



Gray. 



Crocodilus biporcatus raninus, Midler, Tab. 3, Fig. 8. 

 Crocodilus porosus, Schn., apud Gray : Catal. 

 " Buaya" of the Malays. 



Upper jaw surmounted by two rugged ridges, each commencing from 

 the anterior angle of the eye ; nuchal plates either none, or two very 

 small. Above yellowish green with large black oval spots ; keels of 

 the dorsal scales green ; beneath greenish white. 



Habit. — Malayan Peninsula, Pinang, Singapore. 



India, Tenasserim, Sumatra, Java, Timor, Seychelle Islands. 

 This, in the Malayan countries exceedingly numerous species, is of 

 the same habits, and attains to the same size as the preceding. 



FAM. GECKONIM, Bonaparte (ASCALABOTES, Bum. and Bibr.) 

 Gen. Platydactylxjs, Cuvier. 

 Toes more or less dilated throughout their length, beneath with 

 transverse imbricate plates, either entire or divided by a central longitu- 

 dinal groove. 



Platydactylxjs lugubris, Dum. and Bibr. 



Syn. — Amydosaurus lugubris, Gray. 



Thumbs nailless ; trausverse plates beneath all the toes; back finely granu- 

 lar. Above whitish, with black spots. 



Habit. — Pinang. 

 Otaheite. 

 A single male was captured in my house in the valley of Pinang. 

 The integuments correspond to the description given by M. M. 

 Dumeril and Bibron, to which may be added the following characters: 



