37. GECKO. 185 



vertical diameter generally less than half the diameter of the orhit. 

 Body and limbs rather more elongate than in <?. verticillatus ; digits 

 free. The scales on the head and back similar to those of Q. verti- 

 cillatus, but smaller ; upper labials twelve to fourteen, first entering 

 the nostril ; lower labials ten to twelve, gradually decreasing in size ; 

 chin-shields three to five on each side, smaller than the labials, the 

 inner pair generally longer than the mental. Back with ten or 

 twelve longitudinal series of mamilliform tubercles. Throat covered 

 with exceedingly small granules ; ventral scales larger than in G. 

 verticillatus. Preeanal pores eleven to sixteen altogether. Tail like 

 that of G. verticillatus, but the scales on the upper surface much 

 smaller, the annuli being composed of ten or eleven transverse 

 rows of scales ; the large scales on the lower surface of the tail are 

 much dilated transversely, forming generally two symmetrical series. 

 Brown or brownish grey above, marbled with darker, with or without 

 transverse rows of whitish spots, — a character of the young in this 

 and the preceding species, but which may here persist throughout 

 life ; sometimes a linear, A-shaped dark brown mark on the head ; 

 taU annulate with darker and lighter ; lower surfaces whitish, 

 generally dotted or variegated with greyish. 



Total length 367 millim. 



Head 48 ., 



Width of head 36 „ 



Body 141 „ 



Fore limb 57 „ 



Hind Umb 76 „ 



TaU 178 „ 



Birma ; Malay peninsula ; Andaman Islands ; Sumatra ; Java ; 

 Borneo. 



a. <J . Pinang. Dr. Cantor. (Type.) 



b-c. 2 ■ Andamans. W. Theobald, Esq. [0.]. 



d. Hgr. Padang. Dr. Bleaker. 



e. Hgr. Banjermassing. Dr. Bleeker. 



/. Yg. Labuan. Dr. Collingwood [P.]. 



g. cj. ? Dr. Bleeker. 



h. cJ . ? (Type of Gecko albofasctolatui.) 



3. Gecko vittatus. 



Gecko vittatua, Grai/, Cat. p. 162. 

 Gekko vittatus, Houttuyn, Verh. Oenotsch. Vlissing. ix. 1782, p. 325, 



pi. — . fig. 2 ; Brongn, Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. 1800, pi. vi. fig. 3 ; Daud. 



Sept. iv. p. 136, pi. 1. ; Peters Sr Doria, Ann. Mus. Genov. xiii. 



1878, p. 368. 

 Lacerta unistriata, Shmo, Natur: MisceU. iii. pi. Ixxxix. 

 Platydactylus vittatus, Ilum. ^ Bihr. iii. p. 331 ; Duvernoy, P. A. 



Rept. pi. XX. fig. 1. 

 (Scelotretusj vittatus, Fitzing. Syst. Pept. p. 101. 



Head regularly oviform ; snout longer than the distance between 

 the eye and the ear-opening, about once and two' thirds the diameter 



