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HEMIDACTYLUS GARNOTII' Dumeril and Bibron. 



THE FOX GECKO. 



(Figs. 2-4.) 



IHSCy.—Hemidactyhis garnotii Dum1i:ril aud Bibron, Erp<^t. G<^n., Ill, p. 368 (type 

 locality, Tahiti). — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.,I (1885), p. 141; III 

 (1887), p. 485.— iB", gartiotii Boui.enger, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, 



p. 118, pi. XXII, fig8. 1, Ifl. 



1857. — Doryura rnlpecuJa Girard, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1857, p. 197; extr., p. 5 

 (type locality, " Sandwich Islands") ; U. S. Expl. Exp., Herpet. (1858), p. 

 286, Atlas, pi. xxiv, iigs. 17-24. 

 I have left out of the synonymy of this species all references to speci- 

 mens from India, Burma, and Sumatra,- since Theobald describes his 

 Doryura guadama as possessing nineteen femoral pores, while the true 

 IT. garnotii appears to be entirely destitute of femoral pores, Boulen- 

 ger, when writing his account of the species, in the Catalogue of Lizards, 

 does not seem to have examined male specimens, and the types in the 

 British Museum are also stated to be females. The negative result 

 from them is consequently not convincing. 



There can scarcely be a doubt that Girard'S Doryura vnlpecula is 

 correctly referred to this species. It is true, Girard says that "from 

 D. garnoti it differs by a more pointed snout or muzzle, and by the 

 sides of the tail not being denticulated," and in the description of the 

 tail he expressly states that "the sides of that organ are sharp, though 

 not otherwise serrated or denticulated," while in all the specimens 

 before me with unreproduced tail the edge of the latter is most dis- 

 tinctly and obviously denticulated, strongly differentiated spines being 

 placed at equal intervals along the sharp margin. Girard's specimens 

 are lost,^ but it is almost safe to say that those he examined and 

 described had the tail reproduced, for in such specimens before me I 

 find the new portion destitute of the spinous denticulation. No. 23470, 

 CJ.S.N.M., is particularly instructive in this respect, as only the ter- 

 minal two-thirds of the tail are reproduced, with the result that the 

 edge of the basal third of the tail of this individual is strongly den- 

 ticulated, while the distal two-thirds are "nearly even laterally," as 

 expressed by Girard. An inspection of the figure presented by him* 

 bears out this theory, as it certainly has the appearance of a specimen 

 with a reproduced tail. 



'Named for Prosper Garnot, French traveler and naturalist. 



' ffcmidactyliis Indekiiujii Bleeker, Natuurk. Tijdschr. Nedeii. Ind., XVI, 1858, p. 

 27 (Agam, AV. Sumatra). Hemidactylus [Donjui'al mandeUianus Stoliczka, Journ. 

 As. Soc. Bengal, XLI, 1872, Pt. 2, p. 101, pi. iii, figs. 1, 2 (Sikkira). Doryura guadama 

 Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. London, Zool., X, 1870, p. 30 (Burma). Hemidactylus 

 llanfordii Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., I (1885), p. 141 (Darjeeling). 



■'Unless No. 11288, U.S.N.M., a small specimen without locality, but recorded as 

 collect«Hl by the Exploring Expedition, be one of the cotypes. 



"•U. S. Expl. Exped., Herpet., Atlas, pi. xxiv, lig. 17. 



