GEKKO 95 



Platydactylus guttatus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen. 3 (1836) 321, 

 328, pi. 28, %. 4; Guerin, Icon. Reg. Anim. (1834) pi. 13; Peters, 

 Preuss. Exped. O. Asien, Zool. Teil 1 (1876) 374. 



Gecko reevesii Gray, Cat. Liz. (1845) 160; Fitzinger, Syst. Rept. 

 (1843) 101. 



Gekko indicus GirArd, U. S. Expl. Exped., Herp. (1858) 290, pi. 16, 

 figs. 9-16. 



Gekko verticillatus Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. 1 (1885) 183; de 

 RooiJ, Rept. Indo-Aust. Arch. 1 (1915) 56. 



Gekko gecko Barbour, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. Coll. 44 (1912) 

 82. 

 Description of species. — (From No. R1666, E. H. Taylor col- 

 lection, collected in Negros in 1915 by E. H. Taylor.) Head 

 large ; a broad, very shallow depression on snout ; rostral one and 

 one-half times as wide as high, with a small cleft entering from 

 above ; rostral separated from nostril by two prenasal scales, the 

 upper very much the larger (lower scale only rarely present) 

 and separated from its fellow by a single scale; nostril sur- 

 rounded by first labial, two postnasals, a supranasal, and two 

 prenasals ; supranasals separated from each other by one or two 

 scales; thirteen or fourteen upper labials, twelve lower labials, 

 each with a small, rounded, distinct, median tubercle or keel ; four 

 enlarged chin shields on either side of jaw bordering lower 

 labials ; the two in contact with mental and with each other are 

 much longer than broad, about as long as mental, which is wider 

 than adjacent labials but not so long; a single pentagonal scale 

 following the pair of median chin shields; head covered above 

 with conical tubercles, those above labials rather elongate, keeled ; 

 body covered above with rather irregular, flat, juxtaposed gran- 

 ules or scales with twelve longitudinal rows of much-enlarged, 

 flat or rounded tubercles, those on neck and above ear distinctly 

 conical ; eight rows of tubercles continued some distance on tail, 

 keeled ; tubercles on legs flattened ; scales behind ear smallest on 

 body, imbricating; scales on throat rounding, juxtaposed, larger 

 on angle of jaws, smaller than belly scales ; latter in thirty-two 

 longitudinal rows, larger than scales on back, imbricating ; annu- 

 lations on tail distinctly marked, each with five transverse rows 

 of scales and one row of tubercles; the first transverse row of 

 scales on each annulation larger and more regular than other 

 scales ; below, scales larger than above, the median paired series 

 largest ; three or two rows to each annulation ; tubercles not con- 

 tinued to tip ; a slight skin fold from axilla to groin ; legs large, 

 digits free, all save inner with compressed, clawed, free, distal 

 phalanx; fifteen broad, curved, undivided lamellae under inner 



