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Show 630 MR. STANLEY S. FLOWER ON THE [May 16, Kabin, and Cbantaboon; and also received a specimen from Kosichang. Colour (in life). As mentioned by Cantor, the young and adult are similarly marked and coloured, thus differing from the other common house species, i. e. H. frenatus and Gehyra mutilata. This species also seems to have but little power of changing its colour and so (irrespective of its parachute) can be easily identified when seen. Above grey, more or less mottled or speckled with yellowish brown, with quadrangular dark spots in pairs along the back, each pair being situated on a reddish-brown transverse band ; tail with similar dark cross-bands. A dark line on each side of the head passing through the eye. Beneath bright lemon-yellow, pale yellow, or dirty white ; tail sometimes is coral-red. Size. The largest specimens I have measured were from Singapore:- <-? . Total length 127 mm. (snt. to vnt. 61 ; tail 66). $ . Total length 110 mm. (snt. to vnt. 55; tail 55). Hab. India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Cambodia, South China, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo1, Celebes, Savu, and Philippines. 40. MIMETOZOON CRASPEDOTUS (Mocquard). Hemidactylus craspedotus, Mocq. Le Natur. 1890, p. 144. Mimetozoon fioweri, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 767, pl. xxxvi. • S. Flower, P.Z. S. 1896, p. 866. Mimetozoon craspedotus, Blgr. P. Z. S. 1898, p. 914. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 41. GEHYRA MUTILATA (Wiegm.). Hemidactylus peronii, Cantor, p. 22. Peripia peronii, Stol. J. A. S. B. 1870, p. 163. Gehyra mutilata, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 148 ; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 866. Localities. This House-Gecko is very common in Penang from sea-level to 2500 feet, and is the commonest species in Singapore. On the Peninsula, however, it does not seem so widely distributed as Hemidactylus frenatus; I have only seen it at Alor Star in Kedah, and at Matang (sea-level), Taiping, and Maxwell's Hill (3400 feet) in Perak. I have also found it in on the little island of Pulo Tikus, near Penang. Possibly it has but recently extended to Siam ; for though it does not seem to have been previously recorded from there, I found it numerous in houses in Bangkok and Cbantaboon, but in both places less so than either H. frenatus, H. platyurus, or Gecko verticillatus, and I never saw it up country, where these three other species were common. Colour (in life). Adult: usually buff or grey, sometimes nearly white, generally immaculate, but sometimes on the upper surfaces dotted or variegated with darker. Young: upper surfaces yellowish brown (but varies from light yellow to rich purplish brown at different times in the same individual), profusely and distinctlv 1 I obtained this species in Brunei. |
