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small yellow spots on the back; tip of tail yellow. Length 

 of head and body 48 mm.; tail 45 mm. 



Habitat: Borneo (Mt. Penrissen — 3000 feet). — Malacca, 

 2200 — 4000 feet. 



3. Gonatodes timorensis (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Gyiii/iodaciylus ttnioiicusis^ Dum. & Bibr., Eipet. Gen. Ill 1836, p. 411. 

 Gonatodes ii/norcttsis^ Boulengcr, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 63. 



Snout short, pointed; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Head 

 covered with small granules, enlarged on the snout; rostral large, 

 a little more broad than high; nostril bordered by the rostral 

 and three nasals. Five upper and three lower labials; mental 

 very large, rounded posteriorly, followed by two small chin- 

 shields. Body rather short, covered above with small equal 

 granules. Ventral scales hexagonal, imbricate. No femoral or 

 praeanal pores. Limbs strong, covered with uniform granules; 

 digits long and slender, with transverse, subimbricate scales 

 below. 



Reddish-brown above, with a series of brown spots along 

 each side of the vertebral line; flanks with a series of dark brown 

 spots. Lower parts greyish. Length of head and body 35 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Paris Museum. 



Habitat: Timor!. 



4. Gonatodes kendalli (Gray). 



Hetcroiiota kendalUi^ ^ray, Cat. 1845, p. 174. 



Gofiatodes kendallii^ Boulenger, Cat. l.iz. I 1885, p. 63, pi. V fig. 4. 



Head oval, snout long and broad, rounded, depressed, with 

 strong canthal ridges, much longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, one time and a half the diameter of 

 the orbit. Eyes large; ear-opening oval, vertical, two fifths the 

 diameter of the eye. Rostral large, quadrangular, not twice 

 as broad as high, with median cleft; nostril between the rostral 

 and several granules. Eleven to thirteen upper and ten to 

 twelve lower labials; mental very large, subtriangular; two 

 large chin-shields. Body very slender, covered above with small 

 granules, intermixed with small keeled tubercles. Ventral scales 

 very small, juxtaposed, convex, keeled. No praeanal or femoral 

 pores. Tail cylindrical, slender, with small keeled scales and 

 large pointed tubercles, of which there is sometimes a median 



