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the eye. Lower parts uniform dirty white, each scale dotted 

 with brown. Length of head and body 71 mm.; tail 76 mm. 

 Habitat: New Guinea (Fly River!, Fife Bay). Austra- 

 lia; Polynesia. 



7. Gehyra oceanica (Lesson). 



Gecko oceanicus, Lesson, Voyage Coquille II I, 1830, p. 42, pi. II fig. 3. 



Gehyra oceanica^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 152 (s. syn.). 



Per opus oceanicus, Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. XLIV 1912, p. 81. 



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, oval, horizontal. Rostral large, quadrangular, emarginate 

 above; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial and four 

 or five small nasals. Eleven to thirteen upper and nine to 

 twelve lower labials, mental small, variably shaped; three pair 

 of chin-shields, inner pair long. Body depressed; a fold of the 

 skin along the side of the throat and belly, another bordering 

 the hind limb posteriorly; back and throat covered with very 

 small granules. Ventral scales moderate, flat, imbricate. Male 

 with an angular series of 13 23 femoral pores on each side. 

 Tail rounded, tapering, slightly depressed, covered above with 

 very small juxtaposed scales, below with larger scales. Limbs 

 depressed; digits webbed at the base; the inferior lamellae 

 undivided, curved (fig. 27). 



Brown above, uniform or marked with darker and lighter 

 tints. Lower parts whitish. Total length 240 mm. 



Habitat: Sumatra? '); Ternate; Halmahera; Kei Islands; 

 New Guinea (Mt. Epa, Dorei, Mosso river!, Djamna, Astrolabe 

 Bay, Fife Bay, Yule Island); Schouten Islands (Mysore). 

 Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; Admiralty Islands; 

 Queensland; Santa Cruz; New Hebrides; Polynesia. 



House-gecko. The eggs are white; they have a length of 

 12 13 mm. and a breadth of 10 11 mm. As they are laid 

 on the ground, they have no flat surfaces. 



8. Gehyra marginata Boulenger. 



Gehyra marginata^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Ill 1887, p. 486. 

 Gehyra marginata^ Boettger, Zool. Anz. XVIII, 1895, p. 116. 



i) Werner, Verh. Ges. Wien XLVI 1896 p. 12. If really captured in 

 Sumatra, the specimen, mentioned by Werner, most probably imported from 

 the eastern part of the archipelago. 



