42 GECKONID^, ' 



scales on the back as in the last species, but with the tubercles much 

 more numerous ; tail round, tapering, about the length of the body, 

 very slightly ringed, and with the scales beneath smooth, but not 

 large. Colour above yellowish brown, spotted and barred with deep 

 brown or black, under surface dingy yellow. Length from 3 to 

 4 inches." 



Fitzroy Island and Endeavour River. 



26. Gymnodactylus affinis. 



Cyrtodactylus affinis, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxix. 1870, 

 p. 167, pi. X. fig. 1. 



Body rather depressed. Digits very slender and elongate. Ear- 

 opening moderate, vertically elongated. Head-scales smaU, those 

 in front slightly enlarged and flattened; rostral very large, and 

 grooved posteriorly ; twelve upper and eleven lower labials ; mental 

 very large, subtriangular ; a few of the chin-shields next to the 

 rostral are squarish, very little larger than others, but none are 

 elongated. Body covered with granules intermixed with small 

 subtrihedral tubercles, each of which has from three to five grooves. 

 Abdominal scales small, subtubercular, and carinated. No femoral 

 or prseanal pores. Tail round, with a few indistinct rings of 

 enlarged tubercles near the base, without enlarged subcaudals. 

 General colour above pale vinaceous ashy, finely marbled and mot- 

 tled with dark, especially on the head, sides, and limbs ; a Y-shaped 

 blackish mark on the nape, followed by a black spot on the neck ; 

 then follow five other angular blackish bands across the body, the 

 first across the shoulders, the last between the hind limbs ; tail with 

 blackish broad bands ; lower parts whitish with a slight purplish 

 tinge. From snout to vent about 50 millim. 



Pinang. 



27. Gymnodactylus frenatus. 



Gymnodactylus frsenatus, Gunth. Hept. Brit. Ind. p. 113, pi. xii. 

 fig. I). 



Head large, depressed, oviform ; snout longer than the diameter 

 of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear-oi)ening ; fore- 

 head concave ; ear-opening suboval, oblique, nearly one third the 

 diameter of the eye. Body and limbs rather clongat-e. Digits 

 strong, distinctly depressed at the base, strongly compressed in the 

 remaining portion ; the basal phalanx with well-developed trans- 

 verse plates inferiorly. Head granular, the granules largest on the 

 snout ; a few scattered round tubercles on the temples ; rostral sub- 

 quadrangular, twice as broad as high, with median cleft above, 

 entering considerably the nostril ; latter pierced between the rostral, 

 the first labial, and three nasals ; ten to twelve upper and nine or 

 ten lower labials : mental broadly triangular ; a pair of chm- 

 shiclds, forming a suture behind the mental ; a few small chin- 



