282 Ona new Gecko and a new Snake from Sumatra. 
broad; ear-opening very small, round; limbs bordered by 
dermal folds; digits strongly dilated, fully half-webbed. 
Rostral twice as broad as deep, without median cleft, entering 
the nostril; three nasals, the upper separated from its fellow 
by a single small shield; 11 upper labials to below the centre 
of the eye, first entering the nostril; symphysial smaller 
than the adjacent labials; no chin-shields, small polygonal 
flat scales passing gradually into the minute gular granules. 
Upper parts with uniform flat granules, which are very small 
on the snout and minute on tlre back of the head, the body, 
and the limbs; ventral scales larger, subimbricate. Male 
with a long uninterrupted series of 40 preanal and femoral 
pores (21-19). ‘l'ail somewhat flattened, with small granules 
above and larger flat scales beneath, divided into segments 
and defined on each side by a large tuylangular projecting 
scale. Pale greyish brown above, with brown dots crowded 
together to form five festooned bars across the body ; lower 
parts white. 
mm 
Brom) snout, to wens. he Af eeeeee 58 
- i 0) gS ETN) Oh a 5 Se 19 
lead: 2:siraw eic Gleason OL Ea 14 
Waadthcot head 4ieuhan «Abiotic 8 
Horedimbs.a.ivae oe Ae eee 14 
Hind: lambs ge ats ee Oh eas eee 19 
alow eee are cd ee Pte oe a sae tei 46 
A single male specimen. 
Two species with half-webbed toes were previously known 
—Gecko palmatus, Blgr., from the Man Son Mountains, 
Tonkin, and G. rhacophorus, Blgr., from Mount Kina Balu, 
Borneo. The former differs in the larger, broader head and 
the presence of chin-shields and of scattered enlarged tubercles 
on the back, the latter in the same characters and in the 
remarkable scalloped membrane along the side of the body 
and the very different shape of the tail. 
Calamaria alide, sp. n. 
Rostral as deep as broad, the portion visible from above 
one-half its distance from the frontal, which is longer than 
broad, twice as broad as the supraocular, and shorter than 
the parietals ; no preocular, one postocular ; 5 upper labials, 
third and fourth entering the eye, the diameter of which 
nearly equals its distance from the mouth; symphysial in 
contact with the anterior chin-shields. 13 rows of scales. 
Ventrals 196 ; anal entire ; subcaudals 23. ‘Tail rounded at 
