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Flores!; Gr. Bastaard; Sumba!; Savu; Kei Islands; Aru Islands; 

 Halmahera; New Guinea (Sorong). — Malacca; Burma; Hima- 

 layas; Ceylon; South China; Indo-China; Philippines. 



Doubtful species. 



Hemidactylus tristis, described by Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 (7) III 1878, p. 49, is said to be very much like H.frenatus, 

 differing only in the following points : no tubercles on the 

 base of the tail ; granules of the tail much smaller. Probably 

 H. frenatiis D. B. 



Habitat: New Guinea. 



5. Mimetozoon Boulenger. 



(BoULENGEK, Pioc. Zool. Soc. London p. 767, 1896). 



Digits webbed for two-thirds, strongly dilated, with two 

 rows of lamellae beneath; the distal phalanges clawed, slen- 

 der and compressed, rising from within the extremity of the 

 dilated part. Limbs, sides of head, body and tail with a large 

 dermal expansion, covered above with imbricate tetragonal 

 scales. Body covered with juxtaposed granular scales and 

 tubercles. Pupil vertical. Males with femoral pores. 



Distribution. Penang; Borneo. 



A single species. 



I. Mimetozoon craspedotus (Mocq.). 



Hemidactylus craspedotus^ Mocqard, Le Naturaliste XII 1890, p. 145; Nouv. 



Arch. Mus. (3) II 1890, p. 126, pi. VII fig. 2; Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris (8) 



IX 1896/97, p. 20. 

 Mimetozoon jloweri^ Boulenger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1896, p. 767, pi. XXXVI. 



Snout narrow, pointed, longer than the distance between 

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

 of the orbit; forehead concave; ear-opening small, oval, hori- 

 zontal. Head-scales small, largest on the snout. Rostral rectang- 

 ular, twice as broad as high, with median cleft ; nostril bordered 

 by the rostral, the first labial and three nasals. Eleven to 

 twelve upper and eight to ten lower labials ; mental very 

 large, triangular; two pair of chin-shields, the inner larger and 

 forming a suture. Body depressed ; from axilla to groin a 

 membrane borders the flanks, another the neck from behind 



