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Show 204 MR. G. A. BOULENGER ON THE [Feb. 2, above ; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first labial, and three or four scales ; 10 to 12 upper and 10 or 11 lower labials ; symphysial triangular, broader than long; two pairs of chin-shields, median largest and forming a suture behind the point of the symphysial; gular granules minute. Body and limbs covered above with small granules intermixed with small roundish, feebly keeled tubercles; lateral abdominal fold very indistinct; ventral scales very small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth, 40 to 45 across the middle of the belly between the lateral folds. No praeanal or femoral pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with uniform small flat scales ; a few enlarged, nail-shaped tubercles form transverse series on the upper basal part ef the tail. Brown above, with small darker spots and V- or M-shaped cross-bands on the back; a dark temporal streak; tail with dark annuli; lower parts brownish. mm. Total length 115 Head 18 Width of head 11-5 Body 45 Fore limb 20 Hind limb 30 Tail (reproduced) 52 This species differs from G. marmoratus, to which the first specimens received from Celebes were referred by Peters and Doria, myself and F. Midler, in the larger ear-opening, the smaller ventral scales, and the total absence of praeanal or femoral pores, the lower surface of the thighs being in both sexes covered with uniform granules without any enlarged scales. Seven specimens : Masarang, Buol, Wankahulu Valley, Kema, and Central Celebes. Obtained in North Celebes by Dr. Meyer and in South-eastern Celebes by Beccari. It was the intention of m y lamented friend Dr. Miiller to name this species in honour of Mr. E. J. Jellesma, Besident of Manado, to w h o m the Drs. Sarasin are indebted for much assistance during their expedition from Manado to Gorontalo and their stay in the Minahassa. 5. GYMNODACTYLUS PUMOSUS, F. Miill. Verh. nat. Ges. Basel, x. 1894, p. 833, fig. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) Head large, depressed, oviform; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit, which nearly equals its distance from the ear-opening ; forehead concave; ear-opening a horizontal cleft, measuring one half to two-thirds the diameter of the eye. Limbs rather elongate ; digits strong, slightly depressed at the base, strongly compressed in the remaining portion ; the basal phalanx with well-developed transverse plates inferiorly. Head granular, the granules slightly larger on the snout, with few very small tubercles on the temple; rostral nearly twice as broad as deep, subquadrangular, with median cleft above, its upper border in contact with two or three small |