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LIZARDS OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



more than twice diameter of eye ; eye equidistant between ear and 

 nostril ; ear much nearer foreleg than anterior edge of eye ; ros- 

 tral not, or but scarcely, twice as broad as high, depressed me- 

 dially, notched above with a small ''inter rostral" scale partially 

 inserted in notch; nostril surrounded by rostral, first labial, one 

 supranasal, and two postnasals; the supranasals separated by 

 a small internasal, both making broad sutures with rostral ; lower 

 postnasal largest; eleven or twelve upper labials, the last three 

 quite small; mental broader than long, not as broad as rostral, 

 bordered behind by a pair of chin shields, more than three times 

 as long as wide ,^ these bordered laterally by the large first labial 

 and a pair of enlarged scales, behind by several scales, also 

 somewhat enlarged ; eleven lower labials ; scales on snout enlarged 

 irregularly ; body covered above with minute granules, intermixed 



Fig. 10. 



Gekko monarchus (Dumeril and Bibron) 

 pores ; X 2, 



preanal 



with large conical tubercles, arranged in about twenty irregular 

 longitudinal rows; tubercles largest laterally, and present on 

 neck; small tubercles on temples and occiput; an especially 

 prominent granule on neck; a distinct fold of skin borders belly 

 laterally from axilla to groin ; tubercles present on legs ; on tail 

 tubercles are arranged in transverse rows, marking annulations, 

 six to eight in each row on first half of tail ; granules on throat 

 small ; belly scales cycloid, imbricate, arranged in about forty-two 

 longitudinal rows ; a series of thirty-four preanal pores arranged 

 in a continuous series slightly angular medially, with a slight 

 cur-ved arch on outer ends ; two or three rows of scales anterior 

 to these enlarged ones, gradually diminishing in size ; two or three 

 enlarged tubercles at base of tail on either side ; tail cylindrical, 



