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Light brown above, with spots of dark brown along the 

 back, sometimes forming cross bands. Head with irregular dark 

 markings; a dark temporal streak. Tail with dark brown 

 annuli. Lower surface yellowish-white, each scale punctulated 

 with dark brown. Length of head and body ^6 mm.; tail 

 72 mm. 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias!; Engano; Sumatra! (Battak High- 

 lands, 800 — 1000 M., Solok!); Java (Buitenzorg!, Salak, Suka- 

 bumi!, Depok, Tjibodas (1425 M.), Idju!, Willis Mts. 5000 

 feet); Lombok; Borneo (Matang, Sebruang Valley, Kina Balu, 

 Mt. Dulit, Mt. Penrissen, Kuching, Sarawak, Bidi, Kidi-district, 

 Sintang, Baram river, Samarinda!); Celebes (Manado, Kandari); 

 Morotai!; Ceram!; Kei Islands; Aru Islands; New Guinea 

 (Passim, Fak Fak, Lobo, Manokwari!, Wendesi, along Lorentz 

 river!, Mimika river, Stekwa river, Germania Bay, Astrolabe 

 Bay, Stephansort); Schouten Islands (Mysore). — Malacca; 

 Pinang; Christmas Island. 



Tree-gecko, sometimes hiding under stones. 



A specimen from Sumatra which has a rostral, without the 

 median cleft, emarginated; with two pair of chin-shields, the 

 outer pair very small; no lateral row of tubercles; four dark 

 brown longitudinal lines on the back, the outer ones beginning 

 at the eye, has been named by Werner ') var. quadrilineatus. 



7. Gymnodactylus baluensis Mocquard. 



Gymtiodactyliis Baluensis^ Mocquard, Le Natur. XII 1890, p. 144; Nouv. Arch. 

 Mus. (3) II 1890, p. 125, pi. VII, fig. I. 



Differs from G. Diarnioratiis in the following points: dorsal 

 granulation and tubercles smaller; femoral pores 6 — 9 on each 

 side, 9 or 10 praeanal pores in an angular series, separated 

 by a wide interspace from the former. Lower side of tail with 

 enlarged transverse plates. 



Type-specimens examined in the Paris Museum. 



Habitat: Borneo (Kina Balu!, Lawas in Brunei). 



8. Gymnodactylus louisiadensis de Vis. 



Gymnodactylus louisiadensis^ de Vis, Ann. Queensl. Mus. I 1892, p. il. 



I) Verh. Ges. Wien XL VI 1896, p. 11. 



