144 GECKONTDJB. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead con- 

 cave ; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs moderate, 

 much depressed ; a cutaneous expansion from axilla to groin, and 

 another bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Digits strongly dilated, 

 about half-webbed, inner weU developed ; five or six lamellae under 

 the inner, and seven to nine under the median digits. Upper sur- 

 faces covered with uniform small granules, largest on the snout. 

 Rostral four-sided, not twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three 

 nasals ; nine to eleven upper and seven or eight lower labials ; 

 mental large, triangular or pentagonal, in contact with two large 

 chin-shields, followed by two smaller ones. Abdominal scales 

 moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male with an uninterrupted series of 

 femoral pores, seventeen or eighteen on each side. Tail much de- 

 pressed, flat inferiorly, with sharp denticulated lateral edge, covered 

 above with uniform small granules, inferiorly with a median series 

 of transversely dilated plates. Grey above, marbled with darker; 

 generally a dark streak from eye to shoulder ; white beneath. 



Total length 113 miUim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head ,11 „ 



Body 41 „ 



■ Fore Hmb 20 „ 



Hind Hmb 24 „ 



Tan 57 „ 



Ceylon ; North India ; South China ; Indo-China ; Malay penin- 

 sula ; East-Indian archipelago. 



a-h. $ . Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 



e. S • Sikkim. Col. Beddome. 



d. Yg. Hong Kong. C. Bo wring, Esq. [P.]. 



e-f. (S . Gamboja. M. Mouhot [CJ. 



ff. 2 . Siam. M. Mouhot [C.]. 



h. 2 ■ Siam. C. Bowring, Esq. [P.]. 



{. 2 . Siam. W. H. Newman, Esq. [P.]. 



k-m. 2 & hgr. Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



n-o. c? 2 ' Philippines. 



' p. 2- Dinagat Island. A. Everett, Esq. [C.]. 



q. 2 . Borneo. Sir E. Belcher [P.]. 



r-8. 2 • Java. Ley den Museum. 



t. 2 • Java. Dr. Bleeker. 



u. Yg. Java. Mrs. Lyon [P.]. 



V. 2 • Manado. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



24. TERATOLEPIS. 



Teratolepis, Oiinther, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 604. 



Digits dilated, inferiorly with a double series of lamella?, with 

 elongate compressed distal joint rising from within the extremity 



