142 GBCKONIDiB. 



Doryura vulpecula, Oirard, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 197, and U.S, 

 Explor. JBxped., Herp. p. 286, pi. xxiv. figs. 17-24. 



Hemidactylus ludekingii, Bleek. Nat. Tijdi. Ned. Ind. xvi. 1859, 

 p. 27. 



Doryura gaudama, Theoh. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 30. 



Hemidactylus (Doryura) mandellianus, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. xli. 1872, p. 101, pi. iii. figs. 1, 2. 



Snout obtusely pointed, much longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, once and two thirds the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening small, rounded. 

 Body and limbs moderate. A slight but distinct fold of the skin 

 along the flanks, and another bordering the hind limb posteriorly. 

 Digits with a very slight rudiment of web, moderately dilated, inner 

 well developed ; infradigital lamellae oblique, six or seven under the 

 inner digits, ten to twelve under the fourth finger, and thirteen or 

 fourteen under the fourth toe. Upper surfaces and throat covered 

 with minute granular scales, a little larger on the snout ; abdominal 

 scales moderate, imbricate. Ilostral subquadrangular, with median 

 cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals ; 

 twelve or thirteen upper and nine or ten lower labials ; mental 

 large, triangular, in contact posteriorly with a pair of pentagonal 

 chin-shields, followed by a second smaller pair ; the anterior pair of 

 chin-shields in contact with the first infralabial, and with each other 

 medially ; the posterior pair separated from each other, and also 

 completely or nearly completely from the labials. Tail depressed, 

 flat inferiorly, with sharp denticulated lateral edge ; the scales on 

 the upper surface very small, equal ; those on the lower surface 

 larger, imbricate, with a median series of large, transversely dilated 

 plates. Brownish grey above, uniform or with more or less distinct 

 brown and whitish spots ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. [Theo- 

 bald mentions nineteen pores on each thigh in his Doryura gaudama, 

 which appears to me, from the short description, identical with, and 

 the male of, the present species.] 



Total length 129 millim. 



Head 16 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 44 „ 



Fore limb 20 „ 



Hind limb 27 „ 



Tail 69 „ 



South Pacific islands ; Indian archipelago ; Philippines ; Birma ; 

 Sikkim. 



a. 2 . South-Sea Islands. 



b. $ . New Caledonia. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



c. $. Agam. Dr. Bleeker. (As typical of 



H. ludekingii.') 



d. 2 ' Philippines. 



e. 2 • Sikkim. - (One of the types of S. maniet^ 



lianu^.) 



f. §. Birma. F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 



