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BULLETIN 58^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Habitat. — This species is known to inhabit the mainland of India, 

 Burma, and Tenasserim, and as shown above, it is now recorded 

 from the province of Canton in China. A single specimen collected in 

 June, 1899, in "northern Formosa" and obtained from Mr. Alan 

 Owston, is now m the United States National Museum. It is the 

 first record of this species m the island. 



Another specimen, a female, from Ishigaki shima, of the Yaeyama 

 group, Riu Kiu Archipelago, w^as found among a lot of 22 specimens 

 of H.frenatus. This species is probably much rarer than H. frenatuSf 

 or has different habits which result in its being more rarely caught. 



List of specimens of Hemidactylus bowringii. 



U.S. 



N.M. 



No. 



34188 

 342U 



Sec. 



Locality. 



Male " North Formosa 



Female Ishigaki shinia, Riu Kiu. 



When col- 

 lected. 



June 23,1903 

 June —.189^ 



By whom collected 

 or from whom re- 

 ceived. 



A. Owston. 

 do 



Femoral 

 pores. 



a Description, p. 176; flgs. 169-170. 

 Genus COSYMBOTUS" Fitzinger. 



1836. Plntyuriis Oken, Allgera. Naturgesch., VI, p. Ml (not Flaturiis Latreille, 



1802). 

 1843. Cosymbotus Fitzinger, Syst. Rept., p. 104 (type, H. platyurus). 

 1858. Crossitrus GiRKKT), Herpet. U. S. Expl. Exped., p. 281 (same type; not of 



Wagler 1830). 

 1864. iVyttotV/i»»( GuENTHER, Rept. Brit. India, ]). Ill (same type). 



COSYMBOTUS PLATYURUS 6 (Schneider). 



1792. Slellio platyurus Schneider, Amph. Physiol., II, p. 30 (no type-locality 

 given; type^ in coll. Rebelt). — Hemidactylus platyurus Boulenger, Cat. 

 Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 143 (India, Soutli China, Malay Peninsula 

 and Archipelago; Philippines). 



1798. Lacerta platyuros Donndorf, Zool. Beytr., Ill, p. 133 (emendation). 



1802. Lacerta schneideriana Shaw, Gen. Zool., Ill, Pt. 1, p. 1278 (substitute name). 



1829. Gecko marginatus Cuvier, Regne Anim., 2 ed., II, p. 54. 



1864. Nycteridium schneideri Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, p. Ill (emendation). 



Description. — Adult male; Bergen Museum ; Formosa; vonderOhe, 

 collector. Rostral broader than high, in contact beliind with 

 twH:> supranasals and a small scale between the latter; first supra- 

 labial in contact with a postnasal and reaching nostril; nostril 

 between rostral, fu-st supralabial and three smaller scales behind and 

 above; 10 supralabials bordered above by a series of enlarged granules; 

 scales on top of head granular, somewhat larger on snout, still larger 

 on the loreal region; eye nearer ear-opening than nostril; large, about 

 two-thirds the distance from ear-opening, which is small, about the 

 size of one of the larger supralabials; mental shield large, penta- 



o Prom Ko6v/j./3Gor6i, fringed, tasseled. b From TtXarvi, flat; dvpd, tail. 



