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districts of Ningpo and other places of the Province of Chekiang. 

 It has therefore been generally supposed that " Chikiang " was an 

 error for Chekiang. While there is no definite record of any speci- 

 men having as yet been taken in that Province, it is, of course, not 

 excluded that it may occur in the higher mountain districts of the 

 interior near the western frontier. As a matter of fact, Mr. For- 

 tune in the summer of 1849 undertook a voyage to the " Bohea Moun- 

 tains " (Wuyi shan) in Fukien, which took him through the whole 

 length of Chekiang into the mountain region where Chekiang, 

 Kiangsi, and Fukien meet.^ Among other places he stopped at 

 Ch'ungan Hsien, Fukien (or Tsong-gan-hien, as he spells it), where 

 Mr. Pope 76 j^ears later obtained two specimens of this same form.* 

 Most likely, therefore, it was in this very mountainous region, which 

 extends across the boundary into Chekiang, that the type specimen of 

 G. subpahnatus was collected. 



This seems to be the only form occurring in the region about Suif u, 

 Szechwan, from which locality Dr. D. C. Graham has recently sent 

 additional specimens (U.S.N.M. Nos. 67571, 69467, 76586, and 

 76589). Like those previously received, they are quite typical, with 

 no dorsal tubercles, and a single large tubercle on each side of the 

 base of the tail. The fingers are distinctly webbed at the base as 

 well as the toes, a feature particularly well shown in No. 76589. 



GEKKO SUBPALMATUS MELLI (Vogt) 



1922. Oecho melli Vogt, Arch. Naturg., vol. 88, sect. A, pt. 10, p. 136, pi. 4, fig. 2 

 (type locality, mountains of northeastern Kwangtung, 500-800 meters al- 

 titude). — Mell, Arch. Naturg., vol. 88, sect. A, pt. 10, p. 111. — Gekko melli 

 Gee, Peking Soc. Nat. Hist. Bull., vol. 4, pt. 2, 1929, p. 57 (Kwangtung). 



The Gekko melli from Kwangtung, described in 1922 by Doctor 

 Vogt, does not seem to differ materially from G. subpalmatus except 

 perhaps in the intensity of the broad dark bands across the back, 

 which, if constant, may justify the subspecific appellation Gekko 

 subpalmatus melli (Vogt) . 



GEKKO CHINENSIS Gray 



1842. Qecko cJimensis Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 57 (type locality, China; type in 



Brit. Mus. ; J. Reeves, coll.). 

 1885. Gecko japonicus Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 24-25 Ber., p. 117 



(environs of Canton, China) (not of Dum^ril and Bibron) ; 26-28 Ber., 



1888, p. 60 (Ding-her-shan, Kwantung). 



1923. Gekho similignum Smith, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, Oct. 31, 

 1923, p. 198 (type locality, Ang-mao, 600 meters altitude, near Five Finger 

 Mountain, Hainan; type in Brit. Mus.; Malcolm Smith, coll.). — Schmidt, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 54, 1927, p. 461 (Hainan). 



* Two visits to tlie tea countries of China, ed. 3, vol. 2, pp. 125-273. London, 1853. 

 " Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 58, 1929, p. 367. 



