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the eye. Lower parts uniform dirty white, each scale dotted 

 with brown. Length of head and body 71 mm.; tail 76 mm. 

 Habitat: New Guinea (Fly River!, Fife Bay). — Austra- 

 lia; Polynesia. 



7. Gehyra oceanica (Lesson). 



Gecko oceanicus^ Lesson, Voyage Coquille II I, 1830, p. 42, pi. II fig. 3. 



Gehyra oceanica^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 152 (s. syn.). 



Per opus oceanicns^ 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 a half time 

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

 ate, oval, horizontal. Rostral large, quadrangular, emarginate 

 above; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial and four 

 or five small nasals. Eleven to thirteen upper and nine to 

 twelve lower labials, mental small, variably shaped; three pair 

 of chin-shields, inner pair long. Body depressed; a fold of the 

 skin along the side of the throat and belly, another bordering 

 the hind limb posteriorly; back and throat covered with very 

 small granules. Ventral scales moderate, flat, imbricate. Male 

 with an angular series of 13^ — 23 femoral pores on each side. 

 Tail rounded, tapering, slightly depressed, covered above with 

 very small juxtaposed scales, below with larger scales. Limbs 

 depressed; digits webbed at the base; the inferior lamellae 

 undivided, curved (fig. 27). 



Brown above, uniform or marked with darker and lighter 

 tints. Lower parts whitish. Total length 240 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra? '); Ternate; Halmahera; Kei Islands; 

 New Guinea (Mt. Epa, Dorei, Mosso river!, Djamna, Astrolabe 

 Bay, F'ife Bay, Yule Island); Schouten Islands (Mysore). — 

 Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; Admiralty Islands; 

 Queensland; Santa Cruz; New Hebrides; Polynesia. 



House-gecko. The eggs are white; they have a length of 

 12 — 13 mm. and a breadth of 10 — 11 mm. As they are laid 

 on the ground, they have no flat surfaces. 



8. Gehyra marginata Boulenger. 



Gehyra marginata^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 486. 

 Gehyra marginata^ Boettger, Zool. Anz. XVIII, 1895, p. 1 16. 



l) Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien XLVI 1896 p. 12. If really captured in 

 Sumatra, the specimen, mentioned by Werner, most probably imported from 

 the eastern part of the archipelago. 



