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nasal and two or three smaller scales. Eleven upper and ten 

 lower labials; mental triangular, not much larger than the labials; 

 three pair of chin-shields, median longest, in contact. Body 

 depressed; granular. Ventral scales large, cycloid, imbricate. 

 Male with 18 femoral pores in an angular series. Tail depressed, 

 with a sharp lateral edge, covered above with small scales, 

 below with transversely enlarged ones. Limbs depressed; digits 

 short, webbed at the base; the lamellae angular, divided by a 

 median groove; a fold of the skin bordering the hind limb 

 posteriorly. 



Greyish-brown above, with reddish spots, a reddish-brown 

 streak from the eye to the nape. Lower parts dirty white. 

 Length of head and body 99 mm.; tail 74 mm. 



Habitat: New Guinea!. 



6. Gehyra variegata (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Hemidactylus variegatus, Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gen. Ill 1836, p. 353. 

 Gehyra variegata, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 151 (s. syn.). 



Head more long than broad; snout longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, about one and a half time 

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

 ate, suboval, oblique. Rostral quadrangular, more broad than 

 high, with a median cleft; nostril bordered by the rostral, the 

 first labial and three large nasals. Seven to nine upper and six 

 to eight lower labials; mental pentagonal; three pair of chin- 

 shields, inner large, forming a long suture, outer small, often 

 broken up into small scales, shorter than those in G. mutilata. 

 Body depressed; back and throat covered with very small 

 granules. Ventral scales moderate, flat, imbricate. Male with a 

 short angular series of 10 to 16 femoral pores. Tail depressed, 

 tapering, the sides rounded, covered above with very small 

 flat scales, below with a median series of transversely dilated 

 scales. Limbs elongate, depressed, no cutaneous folds; digits 

 short, free or with a slight rudiment of web; the inferior 

 lamellae angular, divided by a median groove, 12 under the 

 median toes. 



Brown or greyish above, variegated with darker brown, the 

 dark lines sometimes forming a network, sometimes dark with 

 lighter blotches, or with dark bands across the back; two dark 

 streaks on the side of head and neck, the lower passing through 



