1890.] BATBACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 863 



2. Qtmnodactylus PunciiBLLUs, Gray. 



Gymiiodactylus pulcJieMus, Cantor, p. 25 ; Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 46. 



Cantor says, " The species appears to be rather numerous on the 

 hills at Penaug, 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. 1 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 dilficult to see in 

 their natural surroundings, the colouring assimilates so to the 

 irregular rocky walls of the caves. The largest specimen, 6 , was 

 220 mm. in total length (II.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 also 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 Icendallii, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 63. 



This species, for some years only known from Borneo, was 

 found in Perafc by Mr. Wray, who sent a specimen from Larut 

 (4200') to the British Museum, and in Singapore by Mr. Ilidley, 

 who sent S and J 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 kendalli in general 



appearance, but may be distinguished by the scaling of the lower 

 side of the digits and by the presence of prasaiial pores in the 

 male ; in this character connecting G. kendalli with the species, 

 such as G. ornatus, which have praeanal 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 



• J. A. S. B. 187.3, p. 118. 

 Pkoo. Zool. See— 1896,, No. LVl. 56 



