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bricate, 65 — 70 across the middle of the belly. Male with an 

 angular series of 9 — ir praeanal pores, no groove, no femoral 

 pores. Tail round, tapering, covered above with uniform small, 

 flat scales and rows of 4 — 8 keeled, trihedral tubercles at the 

 base; below with broad transverse scales. Limbs elongate; 

 digits strong, depressed at the base, which has broad enlarged 

 transverse, imbricate scales underneath, compressed in the 

 distal portion. 



Dark brown above with 8 or 9 narrow white, black-edged 

 cross lines, one from eye to eye on the occiput and another 

 across the nape from one eye to the other, through the ear- 

 opening. Head brown with a network of narrow white lines; 

 upper lip with white spots. Limbs and tail also with white, 

 dark-edged cross lines. Lower surface dirty-white, each scale 

 with a number of blackish dots. Young specimens are very 

 dark, almost black. Length of head and body 125 mm; tail 

 153 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra (Muara Labu!); Singkep ! ; Borneo 

 (Matang, Santubong, Kuching, Bidi, Balingeau, Kidi district, 

 Sarawak, Belaga and Rejang rivers. River Bo, Sandakan Bay !). 

 Tree-gecko. 



Note: After examination of a specimen of Gymnodactylus 

 feae from Singkep, Dr. Annandale kindly lent me, I came to 

 the conclusion that the three specimens in the Indian Museum, 

 collected at Singkep, are young females of G. consobrinus Ptrs. 

 Dr. Annandale quite agrees with me (Rec. Ind. Mus. IX, 

 part V, 1913, p. 322). 



2. Gonatodes Fitzinger. 



(FiTZiNGER, Syst. Rept. p. 91, 1843). 



Digits slender, clawed, cylindrical or depressed at the base ; 

 the distal phalanges compressed, forming an angle with the 

 other portion of the digits. The claw between two enlarged 

 scales, a smaller superior and a larger latero-inferior. Basal 

 portion of digits beneath with a row of plates (fig. 14). Body 

 depressed, granular or tubercular above. Pupil circular; eyelid 

 distinct all round the eye. Males with or without praeanal or 

 femoral pores. Diurnal. 



Distribution. Tropical America; Tropical Africa; the East 

 Indies. 



