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and toes fully half-webbed. Head, body, and limbs covered with 

 minute granules intermixed with small, round, smooth tubercles; 

 rostral a little more than twice as broad as deep, without median 

 cleft ; nostril pierced between several small scales ; nine upper 

 and ten lower labials ; symphysial small, pentagonal ; a series of 

 six small chin-shields ; spine-like tubercles on the sides of the 

 head, the largest above the ear. A moderately developed scal- 

 loped membrane on each side of the body, scaled like the body 

 and fringed on the edge. Abdominal scales flat juxtaposed gra- 

 nules. An angular series of praeanal pores. Tail depressed, 

 scaled like the body, bordered with a series of rounded lobes. 

 Greyish above, speckled with darker and with wavy dark trans- 

 verse lines ; brownish beneath throat with darker dots." 



Millim. 



Total length 105 



Head 18 



Width of head 14 



Body 47 



Fore limb ... ... ... 21 



Hind limb ... 28 



Tail 40 



" A single specimen from the Kadamaian River, Kina Balu, 

 2,100 feet,"" 



" This species connects Gecko with Ptychozoon and stands in 

 the same relation to the latter genus as Hemidactylas platyurus 

 does to Mimetozoon. The lesser development of the parachute- 

 like lateral membrane and the absence of differentiation in the 

 lepidosis of that membrane, justify its allocation to the genus 

 Gecko rather than Ptychozoon." 



Stoliczkaia bonieensis. 



" Rostral moderately large, triangular, not visible from 

 above ; a pair of very narrow internasals ; a pair of large pre- 

 frontals, separated from the frontal and supraoculars by a series 

 of small scales ; frontal a little broader than long, a little shorter 

 than the parietals ; supraocular very small ; eye very prominent, 

 with vertically subelliptic pupil, surrounded by the supraocular, 

 two or three proeoculars, the fifth labial, and seven or eight 

 small scales ; nostril very large ; loreal much longer than deep ; 



