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labials. Body moderate; a slight fold on the side and another 

 on the posterior side of the hind limb; body and throat covered 

 with very small granular scales, largest on the snout. Ventral 

 scales imbricate. Male with 7 19 femoral pores on each side. 



Fig. 21. Hemidactylus garnoti Fig- 22. Hemidactyhis garnoti 



D. B. Lower view of tail X SVz- D - B - Fore limb X 5- 



Tail depressed, flat below, with sharp denticulated lateral edge; 

 the scales on the upper surface small, equal; those below 

 larger, imbricate, with a median series of transversely dilated 

 plates (fig. 2 1 ). Limbs moderate; digits with a rudiment of web, 

 dilated, inner well developed (fig. 22); 5 7 oblique lamellae 

 under the inner digits, 10 to 12 under the fourth finger, n 

 to 14 under the fourth toe. 



Brownish-grey above, uniform or with brown and whitish 

 spots. Lower parts whitish. Length of head and body 60 mm.; 

 tail 80 mm. 



Habitat: Nias ! ; Sumatra (Tilatang ! , Fort de Kock ! , Matur ! , 

 Indragiri, Bingin Telok, Palembang, Agam); Java (Buitenzorg, 

 Malang!, Willis Mts., 5000 feet); Borneo (Kina Balu). Ma- 

 lacca; Burma; Sikkim; Philippines; Solomon Islands; New 

 Caledonia; Hawai; Tahiti. 



A common house-gecko in Sumatra. 



6. Hemidactylus platyurus (Schneider). 



Stellio platyurus^ Schneider, Amph. Phys. II 1790, p. 30. 



Hemidactylus platyurus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 143 (s. syn.). 



Cosymbotus platyurus^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll. XLIV 

 1912, p. 81. 



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

 opening, one time and a half the diameter of the orbit; forehead 

 concave; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Rostral four-sided, 



