Faiii. Geckonidae. 



Hemidactyliis platyuriis Schneid. 



Distance from snout to vcnt 55 mm. 



The ventricle is sausage-shaped and extends in an almost 

 straiglit line to the ingninal region where it, hardly recurved, 

 passes into the wide ascending portion of the intestine. The 

 limit between the ventricle and the intestine is exteriorly 

 well conspicnous, partly because the latter is wider but also 

 becanse the ventricle is unpigmented while the intestine is 

 densely covered by a black pigment, whicli also extends över 

 the large intestine to the cloaca. The lengtb of the small 

 intestine is aboiit 65 mm. and that of the large intestine 

 abont 15 mm. The large intestine is abruptly widened and 

 the .small intestine opens into it excentrirally, somewhat 

 nearer the right side. 



(wymiiodactylus loiiisiadensis de Vis. 



Distance from suout to vent 108 mm. 



The ventricle extends along the left side to the inguinal 

 region where it is angnlarly bent at the pylorus. The be- 

 ginning part of the intestine is wider than the pyloric tract. 

 A pyloric valve is present. The small intestine shows where 

 it is empty a great number of longitudinal folds of the mu- 

 cosa. Its length is abont 120 mm. It opens excentrically 

 into the large intestine which thns has a sinnous portion in 

 a dorso-sinistral direction from the said opening, the valve 

 of which is only a little developed. This sinuous portion 

 which is attached to the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavi- 

 ty by a strong mesentery can, however, hardly be termed a 



