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first labial and three nasals. Eleven or twelve upper and seven 

 to nine lower labials; mental large, triangular; two pair of 

 chin-shields, median pair in contact. Body covered with minute 

 granules and numerous small convex round tubercles; a slight 

 lateral fold and another bordering the thighs posteriorly. Ven- 

 tral scales cycloid, imbricate. Male with six praeanal pores in 

 an angular series? (The female has six enlarged scales in the 

 praeanal region). Tail depressed, flat below, with sharp den- 

 ticulated lateral edge, covered 

 above with equal small scales, be- 

 low with a median series of large 

 transversely dilated plates. Limbs 

 moderate; digits free, dilated, in- 

 ner well developed; infradigital 

 lamellae curved, five under the 

 thumb, nine under the fourth finger, 

 5 or 6 under the first toe, lO or 

 12 under the fourth toe. 



Light grey-brown above, varie- 

 gated with darker brown. Lower 

 parts whitish. Length of head and 

 body 50 mm.; tail 56 mm. 



Habitat: Borneo (Gunung Ke- 

 nepai !). — Burma. 



3. Hemidactylus nigriventris Lidth. 



Heinidactylus nigriventris^ v. Lidth de Jeude, 

 Notes Leyden Mus. XXV 1905, p. 188. 



Snout short, as long as the dis- 

 tance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening; forehead concave; ear- 

 opening oval, oblique. Head co- 

 vered with small granules, largest 

 on the snout. Rostral four-sided, 

 nearly twice as broad as high, 

 with median cleft above ; nostril 

 bordered by the rostral and four 



nasals, the first labial separated Fig. 19. Hemidactylus nigriventris 

 from the nostril by the first nasal. ^idth. Ventral surface. 



Ten upper and twelve lower labials; mental large, triangular; 

 two pair of chin-shields, the first in contact behind the 



