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are elongated ; the scales of the belly are in about 30 longitudinal 

 series, all are small, sub-tubercular and carinated ; no femoral 

 or preanal pores, nor any enlarged scales indicating their presence 

 the preanal region being regularly flattened ; tail round, with a 

 few indistinct rings of enlarged tubercles near the base ; below on 

 each side of the anus with 2 or 3 large polyhedral tubercles, fur- 

 ther on, uniform scaly, tip curled ; no enlarged sub-caudals. The 

 toes and fingers are very slender and elongated, and the claws very 

 small, laterally compressed and sharp. The size of the fingers fol- 

 lows each other as 1,2, 3, 5, 4, the 2nd and 3rd being sub-equal, and 

 the 4th and 5th equally so, the thumb is a little more than half the 

 size of the 4th finger. The toes follow each other as 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, the 

 1st is half the size of the 4th, the 2nd and 3rd sub-equal, and the 

 4th slightly longer. 



General colour above pale vinaceous ashy, finely marbled and 

 mottled with dark, especially on the head, sides of body and on 

 the limbs. A V blackish mark on the nape, followed by a black 

 spot on the neck, then follow five other angular blackish bands 

 across the body, the first across the shoulders, the last between 

 the hind limbs ; tail in front with four blackish broad bands 

 gradually disappearing, and it then becomes almost uniform- 

 ly ashy brown. The posterior portion has the appearance, as if it 

 had been reproduced, but the anterior £th of its length is certainly 

 original ; lower parts whitish with a slight purplish tinge. 



The general form of the body with the elongated and slender 

 toes and round tail, as well as the total absence of femoral pores 

 or enlarged shields indicating them, and also the coloration so 

 thoroughly agree with the females of Cyrtodactijlus rubidus, that I 

 prefer to describe the single specimen, as noted above, rather under 

 this genus, than under Gymnodactylus ; for in C. rubidus, the 

 females often have the preanal fold perfectly absent and no enlarged 

 shield to indicate the few pores present in the male. 



The only specimen I caught between the bark of a large tree near 

 the top of the Government bungalow on Penang hill. I had at the 

 time, I obtained it, considered it to be Gymnodactylus pulchellus, 

 (G ii n t h., 1. cit. p. 113) which was also by G r a y (Lizards, p. 173) 

 described under Cyrtodactijlus, but differs from that genus in the dis- 



