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dinal series. Limbs moderate; digits free, dilated, inferiorly 

 with undivided curved lamellae (fig. 35). 



Grey above with red spots or vcrmiculations; tail with 

 darker bands. Beneath whitish, often 

 variegated with grey. Length of head 

 and body 171 mm.; tail 150 mm. 



Nom. indig. Tokkeh (Mai.). 



Habitat: Sumatra! (Pulu Weh!, 

 Atjeh, Padang, Talang Akar, Palem- 

 bang); Banka!; Biliton ; Java (Anjer, 

 Gadok, Krawang, Batavia!, Welte- 

 vreden ! , Buitenzorg!, Depok, Prean- 

 ger!, Ngawi, Surakarta!, Semarang, Fig. 35. Gecko vertidllatus 

 Surabaya!); Madura; Borneo! (Re- Laur. Fore limb X 2. 



jang, Singkawang); Celebes (Manado, Kema, Rurukan, Ponre, 

 Macassar!); Lombok; Sumba ; Flores ! ; Djampea! ; Adonara; 

 Savu ; Rotti; Timor!; Samao ! ; Ombaai ; Damma!; Timor 

 Laut; Aru Islands. — Malacca; Andamans; Burma; Tenas- 

 serim; Calcutta; Siam; China; Philippines; Port Essington; 

 Madagascar. 



House-gecko. 



6. Gecko stentor (Cantor). 



Platydactylus stentor^ Cantor, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal XVI 1847, p. 624. 

 Gecko ste?ttor^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 184 (s. syn.). 



Head large; its width less than twice the distance from the 

 end of the snout to the orbit; snout longer than in G. verti- 

 dllatus, one time and two thirds or one time and three fourths the 

 diameter of the orbit and considerably more than the distance 

 from the orbit to the ear-opening ; forehead concave ; ear- 

 opening oval, oblique, its diameter less than half the diameter 

 of the orbit. Head covered with small, polygonal scales, lar- 

 gest on the snout. Rostral very large, twice as broad as high; 

 nostril bordered by the first labial and 5 enlarged nasals 

 (fig- Zl^)- Twelve to fourteen upper and ten to twelve lower 

 labials; mental large, pentagonal; three to five chin-shields 

 on each side, smaller than the labials, the inner pair often 

 longer than the mental. Body long, covered with flat granules 

 and ten or twelve longitudinal series of conical tubercles; 

 throat with small granules. Ventral scales large, imbricate. 



