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Varanus salvator Laurenti. 



Mabuia multifasciata Kühl. 



Lygosoma striolatum n. sp. 



Lygosoma florense n. sp. 



Äblepharus boutonii Desj ardin, var. furcata n. v. 



Chelone mydas Linne. 



SAURIA. 



GrECKONIDAB. 



Gymnodactylus. 



1. Gymnodactylus marmoratus Dum. et Bibr. 



Java: Buitenzorg, 7 sp. 



2. Gymnodactylus d'armandvillei n. sp. (Plate XIV. Fig. 1). 



Flores: Sikka, 2 sp. 

 Habit Gecko-like , head large , snout twice as large as the diameter 

 of the orbit; distance of orbit from earopening equals once and one 

 half the diameter of the orbit; forehead concave; earopening suboval, 

 one half the diameter of the eye. Rostral quadrangular , twice as broad 

 as high, deeply notched behind and grooved, entering considerably 

 the nostril; latter pierced between the rostral, the first labial and 

 three nasals; twelve upper labials, last four very small, granulär and 

 nine to ten lower labials; mental partially wedged in between two 

 large chin-shields, which form a broad suture with each other; a pair 

 of small chin-shields on each side of the median pair. Head with small 

 granules intermixed with conical tubercles on the occiput andtemples. 

 Upper surface of back and tail covered with very small granules , back 

 and flanks with about nine longitudinal series of alternating very 

 strong subconical, distinctly ribbed or uni- to three-carinate tubercles. 

 Upper surface of the tail with strong unicarinate similar tubercles in 

 semicentric rings. Inner surface of hindlimbs with keeled scales, 

 upper surface with irregularly scattered tubercles. A slight fold of 

 skin from asilla to groin, provided with a series of tubercles; 

 36 — 40 longitudinal rows of small cycloid, imbricate abdominal scales. 

 Tail inferiorly with a median series of large transverse plates. Digits 

 strong; the basal joints not very distinct from the distal ones, pro- 

 vided with transverse imbricate plates inferiorly ; the compressed distal 

 phalanges with smaller ones. Males with eightteen to nineteen femoral 



