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long (fig. 14) and slender; the basal part not dilated, with 

 enlarged transverse plates below {4 — 6 under the fourth toe). 



Dark brown above, variegated with darker and lighter, these 

 markings often forming transverse bands on the back and tail; 

 sometimes a light vertebral band ; the spiny tubercles on the 

 flanks with a white point. Lower surface brownish, the throat 

 darker. Length of head and body 37 mm. ; tail 44 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias!; Mentawei Islands (Sipora); 

 Engano. — Ceylon ; S. India. 



2. Gonatodes afTmis (Stol.). 



Cyrtodactylus affinis^ Stoliczka, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XXXIX 1870, p. 167, 



pi. X, fig. I. 

 Gymnodactylus affiitis^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 42. 

 Gonatodes penangcnsis^ S. Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1896, p. 863, 



pi. XLIV, fig. I. 

 Gonatodes affinis^ S. Flower, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1898, p. 455. 



Head oval; snout broad and rounded, depressed, longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, nearly twice 

 the diameter of the orbit. Eye large; ear-opening vertically 

 oval. Rostral large, quadrangular, not twice as broad as high, 

 with median cleft; nostril bordered by the rostral and several 

 small scales. Nine to thirteen upper and nine to eleven lower 

 labials; mental very large, subtriangular; two large chin-shields, 

 two or three scales following the mental slightly enlarged. 

 Body slender, covered with very small granules and irregularly 

 arranged slightly keeled small tubercles. Ventral scales very 

 small, juxtaposed, convex, keeled. Male with 5 — 8 praeanal 

 pores in an angular or crescent-shaped line. Tail cylindrical, 

 slender, with small keeled scales and some small pointed 

 tubercles. Limbs long; digits long and slender, compressed. 

 The intermediate phalange between the basal and the terminal 

 part is covered beneath with small irregular scales; rest of 

 fingers and toes with small transverse lamellae below; a large 

 oval plate at the articulation of the basal and proximal phalanges. 



Yellowish-brown above, mottled with dark brown, shoulders 

 red-brown; five transverse yellow bands, the two anterior ones 

 very distinct, the tubercles on these two brilliantly gold; head 

 with dark lines and light spots. Tail with bands of light and 

 dark brown. Lower part of head and throat orange, belly 

 purplish-grey. Some Bornean specimens are coal black with 



