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series of unequal scales, larger than those upon the throat;* eleven 

 supra-labials on each side; rostral^ plate pentangular, much broade 

 than high, presenting an angle posteriorly; scales upon the muzzle 

 and in front of the orbits, nearly equal, small; head covered with 

 small granulations; five rows of very small circular tubercles on each 

 side of the back above; a row of seven pores in front of the anus. 

 Color grayish, marked all over with black; abdomen white; chin and 

 throat white, marked with brown. 



Dimensions. — Length of head 7 lines; greatest breadth 4^ lines; 

 length of head and body 1 inch 8 lines. 



Habitat. — Loo Choo. One specimen. 



It is just possible that Hallo well had before him a (reld'o japonicus 

 so shriveled or mutilated that the subdigital lamellae appeared to be 

 divided. 



HEMIDACTYLUS BOWRINGII c (Gray). 



1845. Doryura bowringii Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., p, 156 (type-locality unknown; 

 types in Brit. Mus.). — Hemidactylus howringii Boulenger, Cat. Liz. 

 Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 139, pi. xii, fig. 2 (Burma; Northern and Central 

 India); Fauna Brit. India, Rept., 1890, p. 93 (Eastern India, Burma, and 

 Tenasserim). 



1853. Leiurus berdmorei Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, XXII (p. 646) (type- 

 locality, — ). 



1860. Hemidactylus pumilus Hallowell, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1860, p. 502 (type- 

 locality, Hongkong). 



1872. Hemidactylus coctxi Guenther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), IX, Jan. 1872, p. 

 86 (part; not of Dumeril and Bibron). — Mueller, Kat. Amph. Rept. 

 Mus. Basel, 1878 (p. 637) (Lilongand other localities in province of Can- 

 ton).— Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 24-25 Ber., 1885, p. 138. 



Description. — Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 34188; northern Formosa; 



June 23, 1903; A. Owston, collector (figs. 169-170). Rostral squarish, 



broader than high, with a 

 median cleft behind, the 

 upper corners entering the 

 nostrils ; a pair of internasals 

 separated by a small scale; 

 nostril surrounded by first 

 supralabial, rostral, inter- 

 nasal and two small scales ; 



FiGs.i69-i7o.-nEMiDACTYLusBowRiNGn. 3XNAT.SIZE. equldlstaut from nos- 



1()9, chin; 170, UNDERSIDE OF FOOT. No. 34188, U.S.N.M. -J _ 1 



tril and ear-opening; supra- 

 labials 12 on left side, 10 on right; mental large, triangular, or 

 rather subpentagonal, followed by a median pair of large chin-shields, 

 on the side of which a lateral pair of much smaller shields which 



oThe last paragraph in the odginal text follows immediately after the first sentence 

 describing the mental plate; it is evidently misplaced and must be inserted in the posi- 

 tion here given to it. 



b The original text has "ventral," evidently a slip for rostral. 



c Named after Charles Bowring, esq., who presented the types to British Museum. 



