630 ^m. STA^^LEY S. FLOWER ON THE ['^^J 16, 



Kabin, and Ohantaboon ; and also received a specimen from 

 Kosichang. 



Colour (iu life). As mentioned by Cantor, the young and adult 

 are similarly marked and coloured, thus differing from the other 

 common house species, i. e. H. frenatiis and Oehyra mutilata. 

 This species also seems to have but little power of changing its 

 colour and so (irrespective of its parachute) can be easily identified 

 when seen. Above grey, more or less mottled or speckled with 

 yellowish brown, with quadrangular dark spots in pairs along the 

 back, each pair being situated on a reddish-brown transverse band ; 

 tail with similar dark cross-bands. A dark line on each side of 

 the head passing through the eye. Beneath bright lemon-yellow, 

 pale yellow, or dirty white ; tail sometimes is coral-red. 



Size. The largest specimens I have measured were from 

 Singapore : — c? • Total length 127 mm. (snt. to vnt. 61 ; tail 66). 

 $ . Total length 110 mm. (snt. to vnt. 55 ; tail 55). 



Hah. India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, South China, 

 Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo \ Celebes, Savu, and Philippines. 



40. MiMETOzooN CEASPEDOTUS (Mocquard). 



Hemidactylus craspedotus, Mocq. Le Natur. 1890, p. 144. 

 Mimetozoon floweri, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 767, pi. xxxvi. - 

 S. Flower, P.Z. S. 1896, p. 866. 



Mimetozoon craspedotus, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 914. 

 Hab. Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



41. GrBHTEA MUTILATA (Wiogm.). 



Hemidactylus j^eronii, Cantor, p. 22. 



Peripia peronii, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 163. 



Gehyra mutilata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 148 ; S. Mower, P. Z. S. 

 1896, p. 866. 



Localities. This House-Gecko is very common in Penang from 

 sea-level to 2500 feet, and is the commonest species in Singapore. 

 On the Peninsula, however, it does not seem so widely distributed 

 as Hemidactylus frenatus ; I have only seen it at Alor Star in 

 Kedah, and at Matang (sea-level), Taiping, and Maxwell's Hill 

 (3400 feet) in Perak. I have also found it in on the little island 

 of Pulo Tikus, near Penang. Possibly it has but recently extended 

 to Siam ; for though it does not seem to have been previously 

 recorded from there, I found it numerous in houses in Bangkok 

 and Chantaboon, but in both places less so than either H. frenatus, 

 H. platyurus, or Gecko verticillatus, and I never saw it up country, 

 where these three other species were common. 



Colour (in life). Adult : usually buff or grey, sometimes nearly 

 white, generally immaculate, but sometimes on the upper surfaces 

 dotted or variegated with darker. Young : upper surfaces yellowish 

 brown (but varies from light yellow to rich purplish brown at 

 different times in the same individual), profusely and distinctlv 



' I obtained this species in Brunei. 



