36 GECKONID^. 



small, imbricate, 40 to 50 in a transverse series. Males with 

 prseaual and femoral pores ; the former 12 or 13 altogether, in a 

 A-shape:l series, enclosing a groove, the latter widely sepai'ated 

 from the former, 4 to 6 on each side. Tail covered with uniform 

 small flat scales, above with a few scattered tubercles. Liglit 

 brown above, with dark brown spots, which may be confluent 

 into cross-bars ; a dark brown streak on each side of the head, 

 passing through the eye ; tail with dark annuli ; lower parts 

 brownish. — 



Erom snout to vent 70 millim. ; tail 72. ~ 



Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. — ^Known from Penang,^ 

 Perak, Legeli, and Jalor on Bukit Besar (2500 feet), where it is 

 not uncommon on tree-trunks in the jungle, and when disturbed 

 frequently runs down to the ground ^ it is also found under stones. 



28. Gymnodactylus peguensis. 



Bouleug. Ann. Mas. Civ. Geneva (2) xiii, p. 314, pi. vii, fig-. 2 

 (1893) ; Laidlaw, V. Z. S. 1901, i, p. 304. 



Ear-opening subtriangular, half diameter of eye. Limbs 

 moderate ; toes short, scarcely depressed at the base, the plates 

 under the basal phalanx small, much narrower than the digit,, 

 roundish, convex. Head granular, with minute tubercles on the 

 occiput ; rostral with median cleft above, entering the nostril ; 

 9 upper and 7 or 8 lower labials ; symphysial triangular ; four 

 pairs of chin-shields, the median largest and forming a suture 

 behind the symphysial. Body and limbs granulate above, with 

 numerous small, round, keeled tubercles ; a feeble fold along the 

 side ; ventral scales small, imbricate, about 45 in a transverse 

 series. Males with an angular series of 7 or S prseaual pores ; 

 no femoral pores. Tail covered with small scales. Pale grey 

 above, with blackish-brown markings edged with whitish, viz. 

 several spots on the top of the head, a U-shaped band from eye 

 to eye across the nape, two series of large sj)ots on the back, and 

 a series of smaller spots along each side ; lower parts whitish. 



Erom snout to vent 04 millim. ; tail 04. 



Originally described from Palon, Pegu ; has since been re- 

 discovered in Patching and Legeh by Dr. Annandale. 



29. Gymnodactylus pulchellus. 



Cyrtodactyhis pulcheUus, Grav, Zool. Journ. iii, p. 224 (1828) ; id. 



111. Ind. Zool. ii, pi. Ixxiv (1834). 

 Gi/mnodactyliis ptilchellus, Giinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 113 (1864) ; 

 'Bouleug.* Cat. Liz. i, p. 46 (1885); id. Faun. Brit. Ind., Kept. 



p. 46 (1890) ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 626; Bouleng. Fascia. 



Malay., Zool. i, p. 148 (1903). 



Ear-opening suboval, vertical or slightly oblique, one third or 

 two-iifths diameter of eye. Limbs rather elongate ; digits strong. 



