HERPETOLOGY OF JAPAN. 



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Habitat. — The center of its distribution seems to be south-central 

 and eastern China. On the coast it occurs from Hongkong to Chefu. 

 To the north it is replaced by G. swinhonis. Outside of China it is 

 found in Formosa, the Riu Kjus, Korea, Tsushima, and southern 

 Japan. 



In Formosa it is said to be "common everywhere," though the 

 only localities from which specimens have been recorded are Taipa 

 and Taiwan fu. Doctor Fritze reports it equally common in Okinawa. 

 I have before me specimens from Miyako sliima, Tsushima, and from 

 Fusan, Korea, collected by Jouy. They are probably a recent intro- 

 duction in the latter place. 



In Japan proper it occurs at least as far north as Tokyo, and speci- 

 mens from Yokohama, Nagasaki, and Osaka are in the various 

 museums, while Okada enumerates it from the province of Kawa- 

 chi, Suwo, and Nagato, in Hondo, and Chikuzen, in Kiusiu. Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith collected it in Satsuma and Shikoku. It does not 

 seem to be found in the mountain districts, and Fritze specificall}- 

 denies its occurrence in Yezo. Doctor Nozawa writes me that he 

 has ''heard of its presence in south Yezo," but if specimens have 

 been taken there they have probably only been introduced in car- 

 goes from farther south. In this connection I may cite Mr. E. 

 Klocke's experience, who once observed a Gelcko on the walls of a 

 hut in the Chitose forests near Lake Sliikotko, which he suggests 

 might have been unintentionalh^ introduced from Hondo.'' 



List of specimens of Gekko japonicus. 



Museum. 



U.S.N.M 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do.; 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Sci. Coll. Tokyo 

 Wistar Inst 



No. 



13563 

 13751 

 14866 

 17513 

 17514 

 17515 

 17521 

 21362 

 31821 

 31822 

 31895 

 31896 

 34186 

 34187 

 34189 

 34190 

 36528 

 30 

 572 



Sex and 

 age. 



Male . . . 

 ...do.o 



Locality. 



Female b . 

 Young. . . 



Malec 



Female a. 

 Male a ... 

 Young. . . 

 ...do.... 



...do 



Female . . 

 ...do.... 



Male 



...do 



Yokohama (?) 



Osaka 



Fusan, Korea 



do 



....do 



Tsushima 



Fusan, Korea 



Yamagawa, Kiusiu 



do 



Kochi, Shikoku 



do 



Kanagawa. Yokohama. 



do 



do 



do ! 



Mlyakoshima, Riu Kiu . 



Taipa. Formosa 



Riu Kiu 



When col- 

 lected. 



By whom collected 

 or from whom 

 received. 



May —,1881 



1885 



1885 



1885 



May —,1885 



May 28,1886 



June 14,1903 



do 



May 11,1903 



do 



Dec. 14,1898 



do 



May 14,1902 

 do 



Sept. —,1896 



Jouy and Dale. 

 P. L. Jouy 

 R. Hitchcock. 

 P. L. Jouy. . 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 H. M. Smith. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 

 A. Owston. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



T. Tada. 

 FurnessandHiller 



b Figs. 160-163. 



■ Description, p. 166. 



<i Type of Gehyra intermedia. 



"Annot. Zool. Japon., V., Pt. 2, 1904, p. 85. 



