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with the rostral and first labial ; labials small, fifteen upper and 

 thirteen lower ; mental trapezoidal, bordered posteriorly by five 

 enlarged granules. An arcuate row of six strong conical tubercles, 

 each of which is encircled by smaller tubercles, on the nuchal 

 region ; body and limbs above covered with small granules, inter- 

 mixed with rounded, conical, and spinose tubercles; below with 

 flat granules; the two separated by a very distinct flap, the outer 

 margin of which is ornamented with a series of triangular dermal 

 appendages, each of which is provided with a similar smaller 

 appendage in front and behind. Tail of moderate length, depressed, 

 broad, leaf-like, strongly contracted at the base, and attenuated 

 at the tip, covered above by minute granular scales, intermixed, 

 except on a vertebral patch of the leaf-like expansion, with soft 

 triangular appendages. 



Colors.' — Chestnut- or blackish-brown above, with five large 

 angular whitish spots, undulated or marbled with brown, the first 

 and smallest on the nuchal region, the fifth between the hind 

 limbs ; a whitish band from behind the eye to the ear-opening, 

 and another along the side of the neck immediately in front of the 

 fore limb ; labials white, marbled with dark brown ; limbs above 

 with indications of lighter cross-bars ; tail with three broad whitish 

 transverse bands above ; below white, uniform or minutely spotted 

 with brown. 



Habitat. — Bellenden-Ker Ranges, North-eastern Queensland. 

 Type, — In the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



The first examples of this fine Gecko which came under niy 

 notice formed part of a collection obtained by Messrs. Cairn and 

 Grant during the autumn of 1889 in the locality indicated above; 

 these were determined, on a cursory examination, as " Gymno- 

 dactylus platti7'us, northern form " (vide Rec. Austr. Mus. i. p. 30). 

 A fine example since forwarded, with other material, to the 

 Museum by Mr. Day, coupled with the fact that at the time of its 

 arrival I was engaged on a revision of the Australian Geckos, 

 induced me to pay more attention to this form, with the result 

 that I find it to be very distinct from G. platurus, its nearest ally, 

 with which it has evidently been confounded, and which also 

 ranges at least as far northwards as the Bellenden-Ker one of the 



