48 GECKOKID.t, 



dark brown spots, or with round yellowish dark-edged spots ; a 

 dark streak on each side of the head, passing through the eye. 



From snout to vent 32 millini. ; tail 25. 



Discovered by Mr. W. L. Butler at Kuala Lumpur ; has since 

 been found in the same locality by Messrs. Annandale & Eobinson. 



44. Gehyra larutensis. 



Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) vi, p. 188 (1900). 



Body and limbs not much depressed. ' Digits free, strongly 

 dilated, with entire lamella? beneath, the largest of which are 

 angulated or chevron-shaped and 3 or 4 in number under the 

 median digits. Eostral with median cleft above, entering the 

 nostril ; 9 upper and 9 lower labials ; symphysial truncate 

 behind ; a series of small chin-shields, the median pair largest, 

 scarcely larger than the symphysial. Eemoral pores in a long 

 continuous series, 42 altogether. Tail subcylindrical. Grey- 

 brown above and beneath ; tail yellowish, with small darker spots 

 on the back and a vertebral series of small blackish spots widel}^ 

 separated from each other ; a darli line on each side of the head, 

 passing through the eye. 



From snout to vent 37 millim. ; tail 32. 



Known from a single specimen found under a house in the 

 Larut Hills, Perak, at 3500 ft. altitude. 



Lepidodactylus harterti, Werner, Zool. Anz, 1900, p. 196, from 

 Malacca* (type in Berlin Museum) may prove to be identical with 

 this species. 



Genus LEPIDODACTYLUS. 



Fitzing. Syst. Kept. p. 98 (1843). ' 



Digits more or less dilated, free or with a rudiment of web, 

 with mesially divided transverse lamellae beneath, with very short, 

 compressed distal claA^ed joint rising from the extremity of the 

 dilated part; inner digit clawless. Body with granular scales above, 

 with juxtaposed or imbricate fiat scales beneath. Pupil vertical. 

 Males Avitli prseanal or femoral pores. 



South-Eastern Asia to Australia and Polynesia. Two species 

 in the Malay Peninsula. 



Inner digit rudimentary ; tail cylindrical L. ceylo7ie7rsis, p. 49. 



Inner digit well developed; tail depressed, fiat 



beneath, with sharpish lateral edge L. lur/uhris, p. 49. 



* Dr. Hartert collected on Gunong luas. the type locality of G. lariif- 

 cnsis, and this should, perhaps, be substituted for " Malacca," over 200 luilee 

 distant. On the continent Malacca is used as a general term embracing all 

 places between Mergui and Singapore distant from each other over 800 miles. 



