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 2. Lepidodactylus lugubris (Dum. & Bibr.). 



Platydactylus lugubris, Dum. & Bibr., Erp. Gn. Ill 1836, p. 304. 

 Lepidodactylus lugubris, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 165 (s. syn.). 



Head much more long than broad, snout pointed, longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, one time and 

 a half to twice the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; 

 ear-opening small, round. Head-granules very small, enlarged 

 on the snout. Rostral broad, quadrangular; nostril bordered 

 by the rostral, the first labial and two or three small shields, 

 the upper separated from its fellow by one or three small 

 scales. Eleven to fourteen upper and seven to eleven lower 

 labials; mental small, smaller than the nearest labials; four trans- 

 verse rows of small chin-shields. Body and throat covered 

 with minute granules. Ventral scales larger, flat, juxtaposed 

 or imbricate. Male with 25 31 femoral pores in a long ang- 

 ular series. Tail flat beneath, with sharp, sometimes serrated, 

 lateral edge, covered with small flat, equal scales. Limbs 

 moderate; digits with a rudiment of web, inner well devel- 

 oped; 7 8 lamellae under the fingers, 8 9 under the toes. 



Light pinkish grey or brownish, generally a series of small 

 blackish or brownish spots on each side of the vertebral line ; 

 a dark brown streak from the end of the snout to the ear, 

 passing through the eye; labials finely dotted with brown. 

 Lower surfaces white. Length of head and body 45 mm; 

 tail 51 mm. 



The eggs are laid on leaves (grass), two together, they 

 measure 10 mm. by 7 mm. New-born specimens have more 

 cylindrical tails. 



Habitat: Riou (Bintang) ; Borneo (Sintang); Celebes (Tomo- 

 hon, Rurukan, Kandari); Ambon; Halmahera; Ternate; Misol; 

 Kei Islands; New Guinea (Dorei, Mansinam, Friedrich-Wil- 

 helmshafen, Seleo Island, Fife Bay, Bogadjim, Stephansort) ; 

 Schouten Islands (Mysore). Malacca (Penang); Burma ; Nico- 

 bars; Andamans; Bismarck Archipelago; Solomon Islands; 

 Banks; New Hebrides; Sandwich Islands; Polynesia. 



House-gecko. 



3. Lepidodactylus pulcher Boulenger. 



Lepidodactylus pulcher ; Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 166, pi. XIII fig. 5. 

 Differs from the preceding one on the following points: 



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