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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF T H E M A L A Y PENINSULA A N D SIAM. 629 Size. The largest specimens I have measured were:- d". From Borneo, total length 132 mm. (snt. to vnt. 64; tail 68). $ . From Perak, total length 109 mm. (snt. to vnt. 55 ; tail 54). The width of the head in this specimen was 11 mm., and in a 6 of about the same size 12*5 mm. Hab. Southern India, Ceylon (I found this species very numerous in houses at Colombo), Andamans, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, China, Hainan, Formosa, Malay Peninsula, Nias, Java, Borneo (I found it at Kudat and Brunei), Philippines, Celebes, Lombok, Sumba, Savu, Ombaai, Ke Islands, North Australia, Amirantes, Mauritius, St. Helena, and Somaliland. 35. HEMIDACTYLUS BROOKII Gray. Hemidactylus maculatus, part., Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 107. Hemidactylus gleadovii, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 129 ; Blgr. Fauna Brit. Ind., Rept. p. 86 (figured); S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 865. Hemidactylus brookii, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 128 ; Blgr. A. M. N. H. 1898, i. p. 123. Hab. India, Ceylon, Burma, South China, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Ombaai, and Tropical Africa. 36. HEMIDACTYLUS DEPRESSUS Gray. Hemidactylus depressus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 134. Hab. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 37. HEMIDACTYLUS LESCHENAULTI D. & B. Hemidactylus leschenaultii, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 136. Hab. India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 38. HEMIDACTYLUS COCT^II D. & B. Hemidactylus coctcei, Cantor, p. 23; Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 137. Hab. India, Malay Peninsula. These four species, brookii, depressus, leschenaulti, and coctcei, must be either very rare or local in the Straits Settlements; 1 have nothing to acid to what is recorded of them in the P. Z. S. 1896, p. 865. 39. HEMIDACTYLUS PLATYURUS (Schneid.). Nycteridium schneideri, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 111. Hemidactylus platyurus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 143. The Parachute House-Gecko was recorded from Penang by both Cantor and Stoliczka ; it is apparently rare there now, as I have only met a single individual, in Georgetown, November 1896. In Singapore, however, it is very numerous in many houses, though curiously it does not seem to have been hitherto recorded from there. So far I have never seen it on the mainland of the Peninsula. In Siam we found it common in houses and gardens (and river-boats) in Bangkok, Ayuthia, Tahkamen, Paknam Kabin, Bortong PROC. ZOOL, SOC-1899, No. XLI. 41 |