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last three minute; mental pentagonal; three pair of chin- 

 shields, the inner longest and in contact; below them a row 

 of small irregular plates. Body depressed; a small cutaneous 

 fold from below the ear along the side of the neck and the 

 fore limb, another between axilla and groin and a well 

 developed fold bordering the hind limb posteriorly; back cov- 

 ered with very small flat, granular scales, smallest in the 

 vertebral region. Ventral scales moderate, twice as large as 

 the gular scales. Male with a long angular series of 32 oval 

 femoral pores. Tail much depressed, with a sharp, minutely 

 serrated lateral edge, covered above with small flat scales in 

 transverse rows, below with a median series of large transverse 

 plates. Limbs flattened ; digits short and broad, webbed as far as 

 the broad discoidal part; infradigital lamellae numerous, un- 

 divided proximally, divided by a median groove distally; 

 median fingers with 6 divided, 2 semi-divided and 6 or 7 un- 

 divided lamellae; median toes with 6 or 7 divided, 10 or n 

 single ones; inner digit well developed, thumb clawless, inner 

 toe with a very small claw. 



Greyish-brown above, with small irregular dark dots, some 

 arranged along the median line of the tail. Lower parts 

 greyish-white, more dusky on the tail. Length of head and 

 body 60 mm.; tail 56mm. (After Andersson, not seen by me). 



Habitat: New Guinea (Bogadjim on Astrolabe Bay). 



3. Gehyra interstitialis Oudemans. 



Gehyra interstitialis^ Oudemans, in Semon's Zool. Fors. Bd. V 1894, P- I 34- 

 Peropus interstitialis^ Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XL1V 

 1912, p. 81. 



Head more long than broad ; snout longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, about one and one third 

 time the diameter of the orbit; forehead concave; ear-opening 

 moderate, suboval, oblique. A slight fold between the corner 

 of the mouth and the fore limb, a stronger one between axilla 

 and groin and one bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Rostral 

 four-sided, twice as broad as high, with median cleft; nostril 

 bordered by the rostral, the first labial and three or four 

 nasals, the median large, but not in contact with its fellow. 

 Nine to eleven upper and seven to nine lower labials; mental 

 triangular; three pair of chin-shields, inner largest and form- 



