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14 under the fourth toe), strongly compressed in the distal 

 portion. 



Light brown above, with 6 pair of large, blackish, qua- 

 drangular spots between the fore and hind limbs. The inter- 

 spaces light with paired, smaller dark spots. A V-shaped band 

 from eye to eye, an M-shaped one on the base of the tail. 

 Head with a dark network; limbs with small dark cross bands. 

 Tail with 6 broad, black cross bands, the interspaces narrower, 

 light, with a small blackish cross line. Lower surface dirty 

 white, each scale with a number of minute black dots. Length 

 of head and body 88 mm.; tail 116 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea (along Sermowai river!). 



Tree-gecko. Only one male specimen known, preserved in 

 the Amsterdam Museum. 



5. Gymnodactylus d'armandvillei M. Weber. 



Gynu2odactylus (fartnandvillei^ M. Weber, Zoolog. Ergebn. Raise O. Indien I 

 1890/91, p. 163, pi. XIV, fig. I. 



Head large; snout twice as large as the diameter of the 

 orbit; the distance of the latter from the ear-opening equals 

 one time and a half its diameter; forehead concave; ear-opening 

 sub-oval, vertical, one half the diameter of the eye. Head 

 with small granules intermixed with conical tubercles on the 

 occiput and temples; .the granules enlarged on the snout. 

 Rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as high, grooved, and 

 notched behind; a small supranasal, separated from its fellow 

 by a small azygous shield; nostril bordered by the rostral, 

 the first labial and three nasals. Twelve upper labials, last 

 four very small, nine or ten lower labials; mental triangular; 

 two pair of chin-shields, median largest and broadly in con- 

 tact behind the point of the mental. Throat minutely granular. 

 Body depressed, covered above with very small granules; 

 back with about 17 — 20 longitudinal series of alternate, very 

 strong, subconical, ribbed or uni-to three-carinate tubercles. 

 Lateral fold with slightly enlarged conical tubercles. Ventral 

 scales small, cycloid, imbricate, ^^6 — 40 across the middle of 

 the belly. Male with 18 or 19 femoral pores on each side 

 along the thigh. Tail cylindrical, covered above with small 

 scales, intermixed with rows of strong unicarinate tubercles, 



