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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 867 have the power of changing their colour to some extent (remarks of Gecko monarchus); they are generally buff or ash-coloured by day and almost white by night. From measuring a large series of specimens, I should say the total length of a full-grown average G. mutilata is 120 mm., of which the head and body and the tail are each about half. Hab. Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, New Guinea ; Western Mexico. 14. LEPIDODACTYLUS CEYLONENSIS, Blgr. Lepidodactylus ceylonensis, Boul. Git. Liz. i. p. 164, pl. xiii. This species appears not to have been previously recorded from the Straits Settlements. I caught one female in Headquarter House, Singapore. Total length 65 mm. (H.B. 36, tail 29). Colour. Above dark brown, spotted with brick-red and black. Black lateral line from snout to shoulder passing through eye. Light yellow spots on lips and behind eyes. Upper surface of tail red with brown marks. The underpart of the body was purplish-brown, of the tail rusty-brown and yellow, with minute black spots. Hab. Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java, and Engano. 15. LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS, D. & B. Platydactylus lugubris, Cantor, p. 16. Peripla cantoris, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 110. Lepidodactglus lugubris, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 165. Cantor says a single male was captured in his house in the valley of Penang. Hab. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, New Guinea, and Polynesia. 16. GECKO VERTICILLATUS, Lawr. Platydactylus gecko, Cantor, p. 17. Gecko guttatus, Giinther and Stol. Gecko verticillatus, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 183. There is a specimen in the British Museum from the Malay Peninsula through Dr. Cantor. Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. Midler mentions Gecko guttatus in the Bale Museum from Singapore ; and Dr. Blanford (P. Z. S. 1881, p. 215) mentions it in the collection he got from Dr. Dennys from Singapore and neighbouring localities. Hab. N.E. India, Burma, Southern China, Anam, Siam, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 17. GECKO STENTOR, Cant. Platydactylus stentor, Cantor, p. 18. Gecko stentor, Giinther, Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 102, pl. xi. fig. Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 184. Cantor obtained the type specimen " from the villa on the |
