27. GEHYRA. 149 



Hemidactylus (Peripia) mutilatiis, Peters, Mon. Berl. Ac. 1867, 



p. 14 ; Anders. Zool. W. Yunnan, i. p. 799. 

 Peropus packardii, Cope, Proc. Ac. Philad. 1868, p. 319. 

 Peripia mutilata, Giinth. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 168 ; Peters ^ 



Bona, Ann. Mus. Oenov. xiii. 1878, p. 370. 



Head longer than broad ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, about once and one third the diameter 

 of the orbit ; forehead with a median groove ; ear-opening mode- 

 rately large, suboval. Body and limbs moderately elongate, de- 

 pressed ; a fold of the skin bordering the hind limb posteriorly. 

 Digits short, more or less webbed at the ^ase ; the inferior lamellae, 

 angular, divided by a median groove. Upper surfaces and throat 

 covered with small granular scales, largest and flat on the back. 

 Abdominal scales moderate. Eostral quadrangular, broader than 

 high, with a median cleft superiorly ; nostril pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals, the upper much the 

 largest and generally in contact with its fellow ; eight or nine upper 

 and six or seven lower labials ; mental moderately large, penta- 

 gonal; chin-shields three pairs, inner very large, elongate, outer 

 smaU, frequently broken up into small scales ; the distance from the 

 border of the lip to the extremity of the median pair of chin-shields 

 equals the diameter of the orbit. Femoral pores in a doubly curved 

 Une, angular medially, fourteen to nineteen on each side. Tail 

 depressed, normally with a sharpish, minutely serrated lateral edge ; 

 its upper surface covered with very small flat scales, its lower sur- 

 face generally with a median series of large transversely dilated 

 scales. Greyish or reddish-brown above, uniform or dotted or varie- 

 gated with darker ; lower surfaces uniform whitish. 



Total length 114 millim. 



Head 16 



Width of head 12 



Body 41 



Fore limb 16 



Hind limb 21 



Tail 57 



Mascarene Islands ; Seychelles ; Ceylon ; Birma ; Malay penin- 

 sula and archipelago ; New Guinea ; Western Mexico. 



a. Hgr. Mauritius. 



6. Many spec. : c? , Kodriguez. Transit of Venus Exp. 



5 , hgr., & yg. 



e. A . Rodriguez ? A. Newton, Esq. [P.] 



d. cJ. Seychelles. Dr. E. P. Wright [P. 



e,f. g. Ceylon. Dr. Kelaart. 



q O Ceylon. W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 



a' Hgr. Ceylon. Q. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. [P.]. 



i. . S. Ceylon. 



hr-m. S'i. Pegu. . W. Theobald, Esq. [C.]. 



n-o. S 5 . Penang. Dr. Cantor. 



p. ^ . Indian archipelago. Dr. Bleeker. 



