46 GECKONID,"E. 



covered above with imbricate tetragonal scales arranged like bricks. 

 Pupil vertical. 



A single species is known, which stands in the same relation to 

 Hemidactylus as Ftychozoon to Geclv. 



41 . Mimetozoon craspedotus. 



Hemidactylus craspedotus, Mocquard, Le Naturaliste, 1890, p. 144. 

 Mimetozoon floweri, Boulenj^. 1. c. pi. xxxvi. 



Head shglitly distinct from neck ; snout obtusely pointed, much 

 longer than the distance between eye and ear-opening, once and 

 a-hal£ diameter of orbit : forehead concave :, ear-opening oval, 

 horizontal. Body and limbs much depressed ; digits short, two- 

 thirds webbed ; 5 lamellae under inner digit, 8 or U under fourth. 

 Tail much depressed, bordered on eacli side by a broad dermal fold 

 with serrated edges. Rostral quadrangular, broader than deep ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral and 4 scales ; 12 upper and 10 

 lower labials ; sjniiphysial triangular ; two pairs of chin-shields, 

 the median forming a suture behind the symphysial. Head, back, 

 and limbs covered with small granules, largest on the snout ; 

 occiput and back with numerous small, round, smooth tubercles ; 

 ventral scales small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Tail covered 

 with small granular scales, the muscular portion with transverse 

 rows of small smooth tubercles above and a series of transverse 

 shields beneath. Grey above, speckled with brown, with quad- 

 rangular dark spots disposed in pairs along the back, connected 

 by brownish bars and wavy transverse lines, and confluent into 

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

 passing through the eye ; pale yellow beneath, speckled with 

 blackish on the sides, the muscular portion of the tail coral-red. 



From snout to vent 49 millim. ; tail 56. 



North Borneo (Kina Balu) and Penang. A single specimen 

 was caught by Capt. Elower on the ground in the garden of the 

 " Crag " Hotel, Penang Hill, 2200 ft., in March 1896. 



Genus GEHYRA. 



Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 57 (1842). 



Digits strongly dilated, free or webbed at the base, with 

 undivided or mesially divided transverse lamellae beneath ; distal 

 phalanges free, elongate, compressed, clawed, raised from within 

 the extremity of the dilated part ; inner digit clawless or with a 

 very indistinct retractile claw. Body with granular scales above, 

 with imbricate flat scales beneath. Pupil vertical. Males with 

 prseanal or femoral pores. 



Islands of the Indian Ocean to Australia and Islands of Pacific 

 Ocean ; Mexico. Three species in the Malay Peninsula. 



