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Show 1896.] BATRACHIANS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 863 2. GYMNODACTYLUS PULCHELLUS, Gray. Gymnodactylus pulchellus, Cantor, p. 25; Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 46. Cantor says, " The species appears to be rather numerous on the hills at Penang, wdiere the individuals obtained were captured in houses, at an elevation of 2200'." Stoliczka found it in the collection he got from Penang and Province Wellesley. There are specimens in the British Museum from Singapore. I obtained three specimens on Penang Hill at an elevation of 2200 ft.; one was caught in an outbuilding, the other two in caves at night. Although so strikingly marked, they are very difficult to see in their natural surroundings, the colouring assimilates so to the irregular rocky walls of the caves. The largest specimen, 6*, was 220 m m . in total length (H.B. 113, tail 107). Cantor's description of the life coloration is very good, but, as pointed out by Stoliczka1, there are properly five dark bands across the neck and back (and not six). Cantor mentions these dark bands having sulphur or chrome-yellow margins, Stoliczka speaks of them as white-edged, and m y specimens also had white margins. The upper surfaces of the limbs are uniform light yellowish brown, like the back; and the under surfaces of m y specimens were bluish buff. As Cantor says, they bite fiercely when handled. Hab. Bengal to Malay Peninsula. 3. GONATODES KENDALLI, Gray. Gonatodes kendallll, Boul. Cat. Liz. i. p. 63. This species, for some years only known from Borneo, was found in Perak by Mr. Wray, who sent a specimen from Larut (4200') to the British Museum, and in Singapore by Mr. Ridley, who sent 3 and 2 specimens to the British Museum. With his assistance I obtained this species at Singapore. It is to be found during the daytime in crevices under big rocks in the jungle on Bukit Timah, and it was only by burning paper in tbe crevices that we could get these active little Geckos to leave their retreats. Bab. Malay Peninsula and Borneo. 4. GONATODES PENANGENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 1.) This species is very similar to Gonatodes kendalli in general appearance, but may be distinguished by the scaling of the lower side of the digits and by the presence of praeanal pores in the male; in this character connecting G. kendalli with the species, such as G. omatus, which have praeanal pores. Bescrlptlon.-Habit very slender. Head oval; snout broad and rounded, depressed, with the canthal ridges developed, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, nearly twice the diameter of the orbit. Eye large. Ear-opening vertically oval. Limbs long; digits long and slender, compressed. The character 1 J. A. S.B. 1873, p. 118. PROC ZOOL. Soc-1896, No. LVI. 56 |