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lower part enlarged. Limbs long; digits long, very little de- 

 pressed at the base, strongly compressed in the distal part; 

 basal part with small transverse plates below, narrower than 

 the digit, rounded (fig. I2c). 



Pale greyish-brown above, with dark brown transverse mark- 

 ings, separated on the vertebral line; flanks with a series of 

 dark round spots, sometimes confluent with the transverse 

 bands. Head with symmetrical dark spots, separated by greyish- 

 white; a broad dark band from the eye to the nape, not 

 meeting its fellow. Tail with ten dark brown transverse bands. 

 Lower parts yellowish, each scale dotted with brown. Length 

 of head and body 72 mm.; tail 95 mm. 



Habitat: Indo-Australian Archipelago!. 



Note: This description is based upon two specimens, a 

 male and a female, preserved in the Utrecht Zoological Mu- 

 seum. They were only marked with the indication : O. L Ar- 

 chipel. 



• 13. Gymnodactylus consobrinus Peters. 



Gyi/modactylus consobrinus^ Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1871, p. 569; Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Geneva III 1872, pi. II fig. i. 

 Gymnodactylus consobrinus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 47. 

 Gymnodactvliis fcac\ Annandale, Ann. Nat. Hist. (7) XV 1905, p. 27; Journ. 



Asiat. Soc. Beng. I 1905, p. 84. 



Head large, depressed ; snout rounded, one time and a half 

 the diameter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the 

 ear-opening; forehead strongly concave; ear-opening small, 

 oval, vertical, about one fourth the diameter of the eye. Head 

 granular, the granules enlarged on the snout and the supra- 

 ocular region; small conical tubercles on the occiput and 

 temples. Rostral very large, subquadrangular, twice as broad 

 as high, with median cleft above; a supranasal, separated from 

 its fellow by one or two small median shields; nostril bor- 

 dered by the rostral, the supranasal, the first labial and three 

 small scales. Ten to thirteen upper and ten to twelve lower 

 labials; mental triangular; a large pair of chin-shields forming 

 a long median suture behind the mental, on each side a 

 smaller shield. Throat with small granules. Body long, depressed, 

 covered above with small granules, intermixed with round 

 conical, feebly keeled tubercles. Lateral fold with slightly 

 enlarged tubercles. Ventral scales small, cycloid, smooth, im- 



