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have the power of changing their colour to some extent (as Cantor 
remarks of Gecko monarchus); they are generally buff or ash- 
coloured by day and almost white by night. From measuring a 
large series of specimens, I should say the total Jength of a full- 
grown average G', mutilata is 120 mm., of which the head and body 
and the tail are each about half. 
Hab. Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, Ceylon, Burma, Malay 
Peninsula and Archipelago, New Guinea; Western Mexico. 
14, LepIpoDACTYLUS CEYLONENSIS, Blgr. 
Lepidodactylus ceylonensis, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 164, pl. xiii. fig. 3. 
This species appears not to have been previously recorded from 
the Straits Settlements. I caught one female in Headquarter 
House, Singapore. Total length 65 mm. (H.B. 36, tail 29). 
Colour. Above dark brown, spotted with brick-red and black. 
Black lateral line from snout to shoulder passing through eve. 
Light yellow spots on lips and behind eyes. Upper surface of 
tail red with brown marks. The underpart of the body was 
purplish-brown, of the tail rusty-brown and yellow, with minute 
black spots. 
Hab. Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, and 
Engano. 
15. LEPrIpopACcTYLUS LuGuBRIS, D. & B. 
Platydactylus lugubris, Cantor, p. 16. 
Peripia cantoris, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 110. 
Lepidodactylus lugubris, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 165. 
Cantor says a single male was captured in his house in the 
valley of Penang. 
Hab. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, New Guinea, and 
Polynesia. 
16. GECKO VERTICILLATUS, Lawr. 
Platydactylus gecko, Cantor, p. 17. 
Gecko guttatus, Giinther and Stol. 
Gecko verticillatus, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 183. 
There is a specimen in the British Museum from the Malay 
Peninsula through Dr. Cantor. Stoliczka found it in the collection 
he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Miiller mentions 
Gecko guttatus in the Bale Museum from Singapore; and 
Dr. Blanford (P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 215) mentions it in the collection he 
got from Dr. Dennys from Singapore and neighbouring localities. 
Hab. N.E. India, Burma, Southern China, Anam, Siam, Malay 
Peninsula and Archipelago. 
17. GEcKO srenToR, Cant. 
Platydactylus stentor, Cantor, p. 18. 
Gecko stentor, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 102, pl. xi. fig. A; 
Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 184. 
Cantor obtained the type specimen “from the yilla on the 
