32. LEPIDODACTYLUS. 165 



4. Lepidodactylus lugul)ris. 



Amydosaurus lugubris, Gray, Cat. p. 162. 

 Platydactylus lugubris, Dum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 304; Jacquin. Voy. P6le 



Sud, Saur. pi. i. fig. 1 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. Rept. p. 16. 

 Lepidodactylus lugubris, Fitziny. Syst. Rept. p. 98 ; Bouleny. Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 120, pi. xxii. fig. 3. 

 Hemidactylus meyeri, Bleek. Nat. Tijds. Nederl. Ind. xvi. 1859, p. 47. 

 Peripia cantoris, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 110 ; Stoliczka, Joum. 



As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, p. 103. 

 Gecko moestus, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, p. 13. 

 Gymnodaotylus candeloti, Bavay, Cat. Rept. N. CaUd. p. 13. 

 Peripia meyeri, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. o94. 



mysorensis, Meyer, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1874, p. 1 29. 



lugubris, Peters ^ Doria, An. Mus. Genov. xiii. 1878, p. 371 . 



Platydactylus (Lepidodactylus) crepuscularis (non Bav.), Sauvage, 



Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) iii. 1878, p. 69. 



Head much longer than broad ; snout subacuminate, longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, about once and 

 a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead with a median groove ; 

 ear-opening small, round. Body and limbs moderate. Digits 

 moderate, inner well developed, with a rudiment of web ; inferior 

 lamellae numerous, seven or eight under the fingers, eight or nine 

 under the toes. Upper surfaces and throat covered with very minute 

 granules, a little larger on the snout ; scales on the belly much larger, 

 fiat, juxtaposed, or slightly imbricate: llostral quadrangular, broad ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral, the first upper labial, and two 

 or three nasal shields, the upper separated from its fellow by one 

 or three small shields ; eleven to thirteen upper and ten or eleven 

 lower labials ; mental small, smaller than the adjacent labials ; four 

 transverse rows of small chin-shields. Femoral pores in a long 

 series, angular medially, twenty-five altogether. Tail flat inferiorly, 

 with sharpish, sometimes feebly serrated, lateral edge ; caudal scales 

 small, flat, equal. Upper surfaces light pinkish-grey or brownish, 

 generally with a series of small' blackish or purplish-brown spots on 

 each side of the vertebral line ; a purplish-brown streak from the 

 end of the snout to the ear, passing through the eye ; labials 

 generally finely dotted with brown ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 81 millim. 



Head 11 „ 



Width of head 8 „ 



Body 33 „ 



Fore limb 12 „ 



Hind limb 17 „ 



Tail 37 „ , 



Malay peninsula and archipelago ; New Guinea ; Polynesia. 



a, 5 . Penang. Dr. Cantor. (Type of Peripia 



cantoris.) 

 h. 5. Bintang. Dr. Bleeker. (Tvp"^ of ZTejm- 



, flacfylus tneyeri.) 



