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water, but it is doubtful whether this was anything but adventitious. Besides 
these geckos and frogs, and also snakes, the pools in the cavities were inhabited 
by numerous insects—Hemiptera and larval Diptera, Beetles and Odpnata,’ 
17, Hemidactylus frenatus, D t ft B. 
Patani ; Gedong and Tapah, South Perak ; Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, 
18, Hemidactylus platurus, Schn. 
Patani j Bukit Besar. 
19. Gehyra mutilata, Wiegm. 
Bidor, South Perak. 
1 The three preceding species are all common in houses, both in the 
Patani States and in Perak. They all exhibit considerable power of colour 
change, becoming at night, under the influence of strong light reflected from 
whitewashed walls, of a peculiar translucen t pale yellowish brown. If, however, 
they run across any dark object on the walls, they immediately become 
darker.’ 
20. Gehyra butleri, Blgr, 
Kuala Lumpur, 
Described in 1901’ from three specimens obtained by Mr. A, L. Butler, 
at Kuala Lumpur, the largest measuring 32 mm. from snout to vent. The 
specimen brought home by Mr. Robinson measures 35 mm. from snout to 
vent, and has six lamellae under the inner toe, and eight under the fourth. 
Reddish above, speckled with brown and with yellow dark-edged ocelli, 
theos ocelli closely approximating in pairs on the tail. 
4 1 obtained several specimens of this species in Selangor, which, so far as 
1 my observation goes, is rarely found m houses. All my specimens were 
captured among the fibre at the base of the leaves of cocoanut palms, where 
they seem to feed largely on the small centipedes and millipedes found in such 
situations.’ H.C.R. 
21. Gecko verticil (at us, Laur, 
jalor, 
1 This species is common on the trunks of cocoanut palms in the Patani 
States, but does not live in the houses either in this district or in Senggora, 
1. Journ. Bombay N. H , Soe. XIII, p. 333, PI, —, Fig. 1. 
