1647-.] Malayan Peninsula and Islands. 631 



marbled with blackish brown ; pupil and iris as in the preceding 

 species. Whitish beneath. 



Habit. — Pinang. 



Philippine Islands, Borneo, Java, Bengal, Assam.* 

 The individuals were observed in houses in the valley of Pinang, 

 In a male the posterior half of the tail happens to be divided so as to 

 appear double ; one of the pieces, the continuation of the normal tail, 

 is depressed, slightly fringed, and beneath with the row of scuta conti- 

 nued, the other is cylindrical, somewhat shorter, and above and below 

 covered with minute scales. The largest individual was of the following 

 dimensions : 



Length of the head, Of inch . 



Ditto ditto trunk, 2 



Ditto ditto tail, 2\ 



Entire length, 4f inches. 



Gen. Gymnodactylus, Spix. 

 Toes not widened into a disk, nor with dentilated margins ; all five 

 with non-retractile nails ; fifth hind-toe versatile or capable of turning 

 from the others under a right angle. 



Gymnodactylus pulchellus, (Gray.) 



Syn. — Cyrtodaetylus pulchellus, Gray. 



Gonyodactylus pulchellus, Wagler. 

 Gymnodactylus pulchellus, Dumeril and Bibron, 



Head, back and limbs with numerous three-sided tubercles among 

 the smaller flat scales ; sides of the body with a longitudinal fold of 

 the skin ; the anterior upper part of the cylindrical tail with distant 

 rings of rounded, pointed tubercles ; beneath a row of scuta. Chin 

 with six scales, the centre pair elongated pentagonal. Males with 36 

 femoral pores on two not connected lines, between which, in front of 

 the anus, a short narrow, longitudinal furrow. Both sexes with 3 or 

 4 tubercles obliquely situated on each side of the root of the tail. 



Young and Adidt. — Above a rich brownish ochre ; the nape of the 

 neck and back with 6 broad transversal bands (the two anterior horse- 

 shoe shaped), of a rich velvety mulberry, or snuff-colour with sulphur 



* Specimens in the Museum of the Asiatic Society. 



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