174 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The adult female (No. 34196, same locality and collector) differs 

 chiefly in the absence of femoral pores. 



Variation. — The o^reatest amount of individual variation is seen in 

 the number of tubercles on the back. In most specimens the tuber- 

 cles are confined to the posterior half of the back, but in some examples 

 scattered tubercles are found as far forward as the shoulder, while 

 in others, as in the specimens described above, they are nearly absent. 

 Sex does not seem to have anything to do with it, for we have males 

 and females with numerous tubercles, as, for instance, Nos. ,34206 

 and 34200, and likewise males and females almost devoid of tubercles, 

 as Nos. 34199 and 34196. 



The number of femoral pores in the males varies in the series before 

 me between 28 and 35. 



The size and mutual arrangement of the postnasals, and also of 

 the cliin-sliields, are subject to some variation from what is described 

 above; thus the outer pair of cliin-sliields are often excluded from 

 contact with the first lower labial. 



The reproduced tail is somewhat shorter and stouter at the base 

 than the original one, the scales are somewjiat larger and less regu- 

 larly arranged, and there are no tubercles. The transverse plates on 

 the underside are well developed, however. 



Habitat. — One of the most widely distributed species of geckos, 

 which has been carried in cargoes to many distant localities. It has 

 recently been found in western Mexico, and it occurs also in St. 

 Helena, in the South Atlantic. From South Africa and Madagascar 

 it extends through the various groups of islands, India, Malayan 

 Peninsula and Arcliipelago, northern Australia, Pliilippine Islands, 

 Hainan, southern and eastern coast of China, to Formosa, Riu Kiu 

 Islands, and Korea. 



From the latter country there is a specimen in the British Museum 

 presented by Sir E. Belcher, and in the same museum several from 

 Taiwan fu, southern Formosa. Another specimen from Formosa is 

 in the museum at Bergen, collected by Capt. von der Ohe. It has 

 been collected in the "Loochoo Islands," as recorded by Dr. A. E. 

 Brown, and specimens similarly labeled are in the Hamburg Museum 

 from Doctor Warburg (No. 1152). Doctor Lenz, March 13, 1897, col- 

 lected four specimens on Iriomote Island, of the Yaeyama group 

 (Hamb. Mus., No. 1899), and the United States National Museum 

 has 22 specimens from Ishigaki Island, of the same group. Finally, 

 the Science College Museum, in Tokyo, has a number of specimens 

 (No. 40) from Miyako sliima, in the same group, and a single one 

 (No. 41) from Naha, Okinawa shima, all collected by Tashiro. 



