166 BULLETIN 58, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 188 (Japan; Kiukiang Mts., Chefu, Shanghai, 

 Szechuen, Ningpo, Hongkong, China; Formosa). — Okada, Cat. Vert. Jap., 

 1891, p. 71 (Tokyo; Chukuzen, etc., Okinawa). — Boettger, Kat. Rept. 

 Mus. Senckenberg. , I, 1893, p. 34 (Japan; Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, 

 Prov. Guan-dung, China).— Fritze, Zool. Jahrb. Syst., VII, 1894, p. 860; 

 author's separate, p. 11 (Tokyo; Okinawa). — Gekko japonicus Stejneger, 

 Journ. Sci. Coll. Tokyo, XII, Pt. 3, 1898, p. 218 (Taipa, Formosa). 



1838. Flatydactylus jamori Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Rept., p. 

 103 (type-locality, southern Japan; types in Leiden Mus.; Siebold, col- 

 lector). — Bleeker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nederland. Indie, XVI, 1858, p. 

 204 (name only). — Martens, Preuss. Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 186G, 

 pp. 109, 112 (Nagasaki). — Gecko {Flatydactylus) jamori Temminck and 

 Schlegel, Fauna Japon., Rept., 1838, pp. 136, 139, Saur. Batr., pi. ii, 

 figs. 1-4. a 



1842. Gecko chinensis Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 57 (type-locality, China; type in Brit. 

 Mus.; J. Reeves, collector). — Platydactylus chinensis Martens, Preuss. 

 Exped. Ost-Asien, Zool., I, 1876, p. 374 (Nagasaki). 



1842. Hemidactylus nanus Cantor, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, Aug. 1842, p. 482 

 (type-locality, Chusan, China; types in Brit. Mus.; Cantor, collector). 



1863. Gecko swinhonis Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3), XII, p. 222 (Taiwan fu, 

 Formosa; habits) {nomen midum, not of Guenther 1864). 



1891. Platydactylus yamori Fritze, Mitth. Deutsch. Ges. Ost-Asiens, V, p. 239 

 (Tokyo; not in Yezo). 



1902. (hhyra intermedia Brown, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1902, June 11, p. 183 (type- 

 locality, probably Okinawa shima; type in Wistar Inst. Phila. No. 572, 

 orig. No. 46; Furness and Hiller, collectors). 



The specimens from Tsushima and Fusan, Korea, are identical 

 with the Japanese specimens, showing no tendency toward GeJcko 

 swinhonis'' from Northern China. The hitter differs in having very 

 few dorsal tubercles, median pair of chin-sliields smaller, and scarcely 

 any trace of web between the toes. 



Description (figs. IQ0-16S).~- Adult male; U.S.N.M. No. 31821; 

 Yamagawa, Province of Satsuma, Kiusiu; June 14, 1903; Hugh M. 

 Smith, collector. — Rostral squarish, about twice as wide as high, 

 bounded above by two large internasals and two small scales 

 between the latter, the superior angles entering the nostrils; nostril 

 between first supralabial, rostral, large internasal, and three smaller 

 shields above and behind; distance between nostril and eye equals 

 distance between eye and ear-opening; diameter of eye a little more 



« Reproduced in this work on Plate XIII. 



b 1864. Gecko swinhonis Guenther, Rept. Brit. India, p. 104, pi. xii, fig. A (type- 

 locality, Peking; type in Brit. Mus.; Swinhoe, collector). — Boulenger, 

 Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I, 1885, p. 189 (Peking).— Mueller, Verh. Naturf. 

 Ges. Basel, VII, Pt. 3, 1885 (Tien-tsin). 

 18V/. Gecko Japonicus Moellendorpp, Journ. N. China, Br. R. Asiat. Soc. (n. s.), 

 XI, p. 104 (Prov. Chili, China) (not of Dumeril and Bibron). — Mehely, 

 Zichy's Dritte Asiat. Forschungsr., II, 1901, p. 44. pi. vi, figs. 1-2 (Peking). 

 1885. Gecko sunnhoei Boettger, Offenbach. Ver. Naturk. 24-25 Ber., p. 139; 

 26-28 Ber. 1888, p. 61 (Miau-feng-shan, near Peking); Kat. Rept. Mus- 

 Senckenberg., I, 1893, p. 35. 



