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ing a suture, shorter than those in G. mutilata. Back covered 

 with small granules. Ventral scales rather small, flat, imbri- 

 cate, those on the throat not much smaller. Male with 50 

 round femoral pores in a curved line, angular in the middle. 

 Tail round, somewhat depressed at the base, covered above 

 with equal, small scales, beneath with a median series of 

 large, transversely dilated scales. Digits webbed at the base, 

 infradigital lamellae divided, 15 under the median toe. Inner 

 toe with a small, retractile claw, thumb clawless. 



Greyish or brownish above, with numerous small whitish 

 spots on head and back. Limbs with light spots confluent 

 into cross lines; a white spot on the base of each digit. Tail 

 with small white cross lines. Lower parts uniform brownish or 

 greyish-white, each scale dotted with dark brown. Length of 

 head and body 61 mm.; tail 55 mm. 



Type-specimen examined in the Amsterdam Museum. 



Habitat: New Guinea! (Fak Fak, Stekwa river, Kaiserin- 

 Augusta river ! , Bongu on Astrolabe Bay, Sattelberg). 



4. Gehyra mutilata (Wiegm.). 



Hemidactylus (PeropusJ mutilatus^ Wiegm., Nov. Acta Ac. Leop. Carol. XVII 



1835, p. 238. 

 Gehyra mutilata^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 148 (s. syn.). 

 Per opus mutilatus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 191 2, p. 81. 



Head more long than broad ; snout longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, about one and one third 

 time the diameter of the orbit; forehead concave; ear-opening 

 moderately large, suboval. Rostral quadrangular, more broad 

 than high, with a median cleft above; nostril bordered by the 

 rostral, the first labial and three nasals, the top one the largest 

 and generally in contact with its fellow. Eight to eleven upper 

 and six to nine lower labials; mental large, pentagonal. Three 

 pair of chin-shields, inner very large, elongate, forming a long 

 suture, outer small, often broken up into small scales (fig. 28); the 

 distance from the border of the lip to the extremity of the 

 median chin-shields equals the diameter of the orbit. Upper 

 surfaces and throat covered with small granular scales, largest 

 and flat on the back. Ventral scales large, imbricate. Male 

 with 14 to 22 oval femoral pores on each side in a double 

 curved line, angular in the middle. Tail depressed, with a 



