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2. GYMNODACTYLUS PULCHELLUS, Gray. 
Gymnodactylus pulchellus, Cantor, p. 25; Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 46. 
Cantor says, “ The species appears to be rather numerous on the 
hills at Penang, where the individuals obtained were captured in 
houses, at an elevation of 2200'.” Stoliczka found it in the 
collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. There 
are specimens in the British Museum from Singapore. I obtained 
three specimens on Penang Hill at an elevation of 2200 ft.; one was 
caught in an outbuilding, the other two in caves at night. 
Although so strikingly marked, they are very difficult to see in 
their natural surroundings, the colouring assimilates so to the 
irregular rocky walls of the caves. The largest specimen, ¢ , was 
220 mm. in total length (H.B. 113, tail 107). 
Cantor’s description of the life coloration is very good, but, as 
pointed out by Stoliczka’, there are properly five dark bands across 
the neck and back (and not six). Cantor mentions these dark 
bands having sulphur or chrome-yellow margins, Stoliczka speaks 
of them as white-edged, and my specimens aiso had white margins. 
The upper surfaces of the limbs are uniform light yellowish brown, 
like the back ; and the under surfaces of my specimens were bluish 
buff. 
As Cantor says, they bite fiercely when handled. 
Hab. Bengal to Malay Peninsula. 
3. GONATODES KENDALLI, Gray. 
Gonatodes kendallii, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 63. 
This species, for some years only known from Borneo, was 
found in Perak by Mr. Wray, who sent a specimen from Larut 
(4200') to the British Museum, and in Singapore by Mr. Ridley, 
who sent ¢ and 2 specimens to the British Museum. With his 
assistance I obtained this species at Singapore. It is to be found 
during the daytime in crevices under big rocks in the jungle on 
Bukit Timah, and it was only by burning paper in the crevices 
that we could get these active little Geckos to leave their retreats. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 
4, GONATODES PENANGENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 1.) 
This species is very similar to Gonatodes kendall in general 
appearance, but may be distinguished by the scaling of the lower 
side of the digits and by the presence of preanal pores in the 
male; in this character connecting G. kendalli with the species, 
such as G. ornatus, which have preanal pores. 
Description.—Habit very slender. Head oval; snout broad and 
rounded, depressed, with the canthal ridges developed, longer than 
the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, nearly twice the 
diameter of the orbit. Eye large. Ear-opening vertically oval. 
Limbs long; digits long and slender, compressed. The character 
1 J. A.S. B, 1873, p. 118. 
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