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angular series of praeanal pores. Tail depressed, scaled like 

 the body, bordered with a series of rounded lobes. Limbs 

 much depressed, bordered with dermal expansions, fingers and 

 toes fully half-webbed. 



Greyish above, speckled with darker and with wavy dark 

 transverse lines. Brownish beneath, throat with darker dots. 

 Length of head and body 65 mm.; tail 40 mm. (After Bou- 

 lenger, not seen by me). 



Habitat: Borneo (Kadamaian river-Kina Balu, 2100 feet). 



5. Gecko verticillatus Laur. 



Gekko verticillatus^ Laurenti, Syn. Rept. 1768, p. 44. 



Gecko verticillatus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 183 (s. syn.). 



Gekko gecko^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 191 2, p. 82. 



Head large; its width equals twice the distance from the 

 end of the snout to the orbit, and from the orbit to the ear- 

 opening; snout triangular, obtuse, one time and three fifths or one 



time and two thirds 

 the diameter of the 

 orbit; forehead con- 

 cave; ear -opening 

 narrow, oblique, its 

 vertical diameter at 

 least half the dia- 

 meter of the orbit. 

 Head covered with 



Fig. 34. Gecko verticillatus I.auv. nat, size. small, COnvex poly- 



gonal scales. Rostral large, twice as broad as high; nostril 

 bordered by five or six enlarged nasals (fig. 'i^ia). Twelve to 

 fifteen upper and ten to thirteen lower labials; mental variably- 

 shaped ; four or five pair of chin-shields, smaller than the 

 labials, the inner pair generally not longer than the mental, 

 forming a suture. Back with small flat granules and about 

 twelve longitudinal series of tubercles; throat with flat granules. 

 Ventral scales large, imbricate. Male with 13 — 24 praeanal pores 

 in a short angular series. Tail slightly depressed, tapering, 

 annulate, covered with quadrangular smooth scales, larger 

 beneath; each annulus is composed of 5 — 6 rows of scales 

 above, 3 beneath; above large conical tubercles in 6 longitu- 



