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Hemidactylus garnotii Dumeril et Bibron. 

 DuMERiL ET Bibron, Erpet. gen., 1836, 3, p. 368. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 141. 



Type locality: — Tahiti. 

 Three examples from Buitenzorg, Java. 



Occurs sporadically in the Malay Archipelago; and also in Sikkim, Burma, 

 Philippines and in some of the South Pacific Islands. 



Cosymbotus platyurus (Schneider). 

 Schneider, Amphib. physiol., 1792, 2, p. 30. Stejneger, Bull. 58, U. S. nat. mus., 1907, p. 178-179. 

 Type locality: — not given. 



Of this wide-ranging form specimens were taken in Batavia and Buitenzorg, 

 Java; at Patani, Halmahera; and at Sorong, New Guinea. It was observed 

 commonly throughout the East Indies. Bryant had one example from Buiten- 

 zorg. 



Peropus mutilatus (Wiecmann). 



WiEGMANN, Herpt. Mex., 1834, 1, p. 54. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 1, p. 148. Stejnb- 

 GER, Bull. 58, U. S. nat. mus., 1907, p. 180. 



Type locality: — Manila. 



Boulenger dates this name from Wiegmann, Nova acta, Acad. Leop. Carol, 

 1835, 17, 1, p. 238. While the Mexican herpetology is dated 1834, there are in it 

 references to the Nova Acta, 17, which apparently was issued a year later. 

 It is possible that the references, as they are simply made to the part and not 

 to the page, were put in from a proof; and that Nova acta, 17, really did not 

 appear until a year after the other book, which as it stands would seem to have 

 been wrongly dated, and not to have appeared itself until 1835. For this rea- 

 son it seems better to take the dates as they stand, and not to heed the al- 

 lusions made in " 1834." 



A considerable number were taken at Buitenzorg. 



Peropus oceanicus (Lesson). 



Lesson, Voy. Coquille. Zool. 1, 1830, 2, 1, p. 42, pi. 2, fig. 3. Boulenger, Cat. lizards Brit, mus., 1885, 

 1, p. 152. 



Type locality: — Tahiti and Borabora. 



A single specimen from the crevice in the bark of a tree at Djamna, Dutch 

 New Guinea. 



Ranges widely in the Moluccas, New Guinea, Polynesia. 



Peropus interstitialis (Oudemans). 

 Oudemaus, Semen's Reise. Zool., 1894, 5, p. 134. 



Type locality: — New Guinea. 



Pratt took a large example at Fak Fak. The species is confined to Papua. 



