30 



5 lamellae under the inner digits, 7 to 9 under the fourth finger, 

 9 or 10 under the fourth toe. 



Greyish or pinkish-brown above, uniform or with dark mark- 

 ings; head variegated with brown; a brown streak, light-edged 

 above on the side of the head, passing through the eye, some- 

 times continued along the side of the body. Lower parts 

 whitish, the scales sometimes dotted with brown. Length of 

 head and body 65 mm; tail 69 mm. 



Nom. indig. : Tjitjak (Mai.). 



Habitat: Simalur!; Nias ! ; Mentawei Islands (Saibi!); Su- 

 matra (Medan!, Indragiri, Bingin Telok, Palembang!, Fort 

 de Kock, Agam, Taluk!, Gunung Sahilan!, Padang); Singkep; 

 Banka; Borneo (Sandakan Bay!, Kapuas river, Tuaran river, 

 Baram river, Sarawak!, Kuching, Sintang, Bandjermasin); Java 

 (Batavia, Buitenzorg!, Gadok, Ngawi) ; Bali; Lombok!; Sum- 

 bawa; Flores!; Adonara ! ; Lomblen ! ; Gr. Bastaard ; Wetar; 

 Ombaai ; Sumba!; Savu; Rotti ; Timor!; Buton; Celebes (Ma- 

 nado, Gorontalo, Posso ! , Mapane, Wangkahulu Valley, Buol, 

 Kema, Eurekang, Kandari, Luhu!, Macassar!, Pare Pare!); 

 Saleyer ! ; Ceram ; Ambon; Batjan; Ternate ; Halmahera; Obi; 

 Kei Islands; Aru Islands; Salawatti ; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea 

 (P'ak Fak, Dorei, Mansinam, Andai, Sorong, Manokwari ! , 

 Djamna, Port Moresby, Rigo, Inawi) ; Yule Island; Schouten 

 Islands (Mysore); Jobi. — Malacca; Andamans ; Nicobars ; 

 Ceylon; Southern India; Burma; Assam; China; Philippines; 

 Bismarck Archipelago ; Murray Island ; Christmas Island ; St. 

 Helena; Madagascar; Mauritius; Somali; Cape-Colony. 



The commonest house-gecko throughout the Indo-Australian 

 Archipelago. 



2. Hemidactylus karenorum (Theob.). 



Dorytira kai-eiiorum^ Theobald, Jouin, Linn. Soc. X 1868, p. 30. 

 Hemidactylus karenorum^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. 1 1885, p. 140. 

 Hemidactylus karenorum^ v. Lidth de Jeude, Notes Leyden Mus. XXV 1905, 

 p. 189. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening, one and one third or one and two fifths the 

 diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening 

 small, roundish. Head granular, the granules enlarged on the 

 snout. Rostral four-sided, not quite twice so broad as high, 

 with median cleft above; nostril bordered by the rostral, the 



