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rows of 8 or 6 spine-like tubercles, below with a 

 of transversely dilated 

 plates. Limbs granular, 

 the upper part of the hind 

 limb with large keeled 

 tubercles; digits free, di- 

 lated, the free distal joint 

 long, 3 — 6 lamellae under 

 the inner, 6 — 8 under the 

 median toes. 



Yellowish-brown above 

 with irregular dark spots; 

 one or two dark lines 

 on the side of the head, 

 passing through the eye; 

 lips with dark bars. Lower 

 parts white ; all the scales 

 finely dotted with dark 

 brown. Young specimens 

 have cross lines of white 

 tubercles on the back; 

 those on the tail all white. 

 Length of head and body 

 58 mm.; tail 60 mm. 



Habitat: Borneo 

 (Kuching, Sarawak); Flo- 

 res!; Ombaai!; Rotti! 

 (types of H. tenkatei). — 

 Singapore; India; S. China; Tropical Africa. 



series 



Fig. 20. Hemidaciylus brooM Gray. 



5. Hemidactylus garnoti Dum. & Bibr. 



Hemidaciylus Garnotii^ Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. Ill 1836, p. 368. 

 Hemidactylus garnotii^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 18S5, p. 141 (s. syn.). 



Snout rounded, longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, one and a half to one and two thirds 

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

 opening small, rounded. Rostral quadrangular, with median 

 cleft; nostril bordered by the rostral and three nasals. Twelve 

 or thirteen upper and nine to eleven lower labials; mental 

 large, triangular; two pair of chin-shields, the median pair in 

 contact with each other, the posterior pair separated from the 



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