1899.] REPTILES OP THE MALAY PETflNSTTLA ANB SIAM. 631 



marked with larger dark brown or black spots and smaller pale 

 yellow spots ; the latter are edged with a narrow dark brown ring 

 and may form four fairly regular longitudinal lines, two of larger 

 yellow spots along the back and one of smaller spots along each 

 side. A dark line on either side, commencing at the snout, passing 

 through the eye, and continuing to the inset of the hind leg ; on 

 either side of the head above this dark line is a very distinct line 

 of pale (or bright) yellow spots. The superior margin of the 

 orbit is bordered with minute pale yellow spots. The lips are 

 spotted alternately pale (or bright) yellow and dark brown. Lower 

 surfaces immaculate, varying in colour from pale buff to grey or 

 purphsh brown. Sometimes the colour of the upper and lower 

 surfaces do not merge into each other, but join in a well-defined 

 line along the sides of the neck, body, and limbs. Tail ringed with 

 broad dark brown bands, separated by narrow pale yellow inter- 

 spaces. Iris golden. 



Size. Males and females attain the same length, 120 mm. Snout 

 to vent 60 mm. Length of tail 60 mm. Width of head 12 mm. 

 The very depressed tail may measure at its broadest part a quarter 

 of its length. 



Hub. Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo 

 (where I met it at Brunei), Celebes, Sumba, Ombaai, Philippines, 

 Timor Laut, IN'ew Guinea, Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, and 

 Western Mexico. 



42. Lepidodactylus ceylonensis Blgr. 



Lepidodactylus ceylonensis, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 164, pi. xiii. 

 fig. 3 ; S. riower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 867. 



I caught a second specimen in Government House, Singapore, 

 in October 1897. Total length 60 mm. (snt. to vnt. 32 ; tail 28). 



Colour. Very similar to the first Singapore specimen. 



Hab. Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Engano, Java, Borneo. 



43. Lepidodactylus lugubris (D. & B.). 



Plafi/dactylus lugubris, Cantor, p. 16. 

 Peripia cantoris, Giinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 110. 

 Lepidodactylus lugubris, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 165. 

 Not recorded from the Straits Settlements since Cantor's time. 

 Hab. Malay Peninsula, Bintang, Celebes, Amboyna, New Guinea, 

 and Polynesia. 



44. Gecko terticillatus (Laur.). 



Platydactylus gec^o, Cantor, p. 17. 

 GecJco guttatus, Giinth. Eept. Brit. Ind. p. 102. 

 Qecko verticillatus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 183. 

 " Toke " of the Malays {apud Cantor). 

 Siamese. " Tokay." 



Localities. The Great House-Lizard or Tokay is recorded from 

 Penang, Singapore, and the Malay Peninsula, but it must be very 



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