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Fig. 7. Gymjiodactylus marvioratus 

 (Kuhl) X 2. 



punctulated with black. Length of head and body 85 mm.; 

 tail 102 mm. 



Type-specimens examined in the Amsterdam Museum. 



Habitat: Flores (Sikka!); Kalao Island, N. off Flores. 



6. Gymnodactylus marmoratus (Kuhl). 



Phyllurus mannoraius^ (Kuhl), Fitz. N. Class. Rept. 1826, p. 47. 

 Gymjiodactylns fnarmoratus^ Boulenger, Cat, Liz. I 1885, p. 44 (s. syn.). 



Head large, depressed; snout pointed, longer than the dia- 

 meter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear- 

 opening; forehead concave; ear-opening oval, oblique, about 

 one third the diameter of 

 the eye. Head granular, 

 with small tubercles on the 

 occiput and temples; the 

 granules enlarged on the 

 snout. Rostral subqua- 

 drangular, about twice as 

 broad as high, with median 

 cleft above; nostril bor- 

 dered by the rostral, the first labial and 4 or 5 scales. Twelve 

 upper and ten lower labials; mental triangular; two or three 

 pair of chin-shields, median largest and in contact behind 

 the mental. Throat with very small granules. Body elongate, 

 covered above with smal^ granules, intermixed with small, 

 round, feebly keeled, subtrihedral tubercles. Lateral fold, some- 

 times very indistinct, with a few, 

 slightly enlarged tubercles. Ventral 

 scales small, smooth, cycloid, imbri- 

 cate, 40 — 45 across the middle of the 

 belly. Male with 12 or 13 praeanal 

 pores in an angular series, A-shaped, 

 in a longitudinal groove, and 4 — 6 

 femoral pores, separated from the 

 former, on each thigh. Tail round, 

 tapering, covered with uniform small, 

 flat scales and rows of 4 — 6 keeled, 

 trihedral tubercles at the base. Limbs 

 elongate; digits strong, slightly de- 

 pressed at the base, which has enlarged transverse plates infe- 

 riorly, compressed in the distal part (fig. 8). 



Fig. 8. Gymnodactylus jjiar- 

 moratus (Kuhl). Fore limb 

 X3. 



