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sharp, finely denticulated lateral edge ; covered above with 

 very small flat scales, below with a median series of large 



transversely dilated plates. Limbs de- 

 pressed ; a fold of the skin bordering 

 the hind limb posteriorly ; digits short, 

 webbed at the base ; the lamellae 

 angular, divided by a median groove 



(fig. 26). 



Greyish or reddish-brown above, uni- 

 form or variegated with darker brown, 

 sometimes with round white spots on the 

 back in regular longitudinal series. Lo- 

 wer parts dirty white. Length of head 

 and body 98 mm ; tail 96 mm. 



Habitat: Nias ! ; Engano ; Sumatra 

 (Medan!, Singkarah ! , Redjang, Gunung 

 Sahilan !) ; Banka ; Borneo (Pontianak, 



Fig. 28. Gchyra mutiia/a • <-• ^ -n • tt 



(Wiegm.). Chin-shields and Gunung Kenepai, Smtang, Rivers Ho- 

 throat X 2. wong. Upper Mahakkam and Baram, 



Kuching, Kidi district, Banting, Kina Balu, Sandakan) ; Ce- 

 lebes (Rurukan, Manado, Buol, Kema, Macassar!); Java (Bui- 

 tenzorg!, Surabaja); Flores ! ; Rotti !; Timor !; Sumba; Ombaai ; 

 Timor Laut ; Kei Islands; Aru Islands; Ambon!; Goram ; 

 Halmahera; Ternate; Batjan; Waigeu ! ; New Guinea (lake 

 Sentani ! , Lorentz river!, Merauke ! , Kaiserin-Augusta river!, 

 Astrolabe Bay, Berlinhafen, Seleo Island, Katow). — Malacca; 

 Andamans; Nicobars ; Burma; Siam; Ceylon; Philippines; 

 Mascarene Islands; Seychelles; Madagascar; Mauritius; Mexico; 

 Cuba; d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago; Bismarck Archipelago; 

 Polynesia. 

 House-gecko. 



5. Gehyra baliola (A. Dum.). 



Hemidactylus haliolus^ A. Dumeril,Cat. Meth. Rept. 1851, p. 38; Arch. Mus. VIII 



1855/56, p. 461, pi. XVII fig. 2. 

 Gehyra baliola^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 150. 



Head more long than broad, snout conical, cheeks not swollen; 

 forehead concave; ear-opening large, oval, oblique. Head gran- 

 ular, the granules enlarged on the snout. Rostral horseshoe- 

 shaped; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial, a 



