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Hoplopodion (Onychopus) garnotii Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. (1843) 104. 

 Doryura vulpecula Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (1857) 



197; U. S. Explor. Exped., Herp. (1858) 268, pi. 24, figs. 17-24. 

 Hemidactylus ludekingii Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Ned. Ind. 16 (1859) 27. 

 Doryura gaudama Theobald, Journ. Linn. Soc. 10 (1870) 30. 

 Hemidactylus {Doryura) mandellianus Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. 



Bengal 41 (1872) 101, pi. figs. 1, 2. 



Description of species. — (From No. 487, E. H. Taylor collec- 

 tion; collected at Sumagui, Mindoro, on the Liddell Plantation, 

 May 2, 1916, by E. H. Taylor.) Head elongate, rather flat, 

 longer than broad, the forehead slightly concave ; snout obtusely 

 pointed, longer than the distance to auricular opening ; eye rather 

 large, little less than its distance from auricular opening, con- 

 tained one and two-third times in length of snout; rostral much 

 wider than high, bending back over snout, half divided by a 



Fig. 5. Hemidactylus garnotii Dumeril and Bibron, 

 femoral region ; X 3. 



median suture, followed by two supranasals separated by a 

 median scale; nostril pierced between rostral, first labial, and 

 three nasals, supranasals largest; twelve upper labials and ten 

 lower; scales above labials somewhat enlarged; snout covered 

 with subequal granules larger than those on back of head and 

 body; a large triangular mental, deeper than broad, followed 

 by two pairs of chin shields, first pair touching two labials and 

 in contact with each other; second pair in contact with first, 

 but separated from labials by a row of slightly enlarged scales 

 and from each other by several small granular scales; scales on 

 neck and chin very small; granules on body small, intermixed 

 with larger granules; latter most prominent laterally; a small 

 fold of skin along either side of abdomen; about thirty rows of 

 imbricate scales across belly, between the folds; tail elongate, 

 depressed, much narrower than body, with a denticulate lateral 



