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Show 1899.] REPTILES OF T H E M A L A Y PENINSULA AND SIAM. 631 marked with larger dark brown or black spots and smaller pale yellow spots; the latter are edged with a narrow dark brown ring and may form four fairly regular longitudinal lines, two of larger yellow spots along the back and one of smaller spots along each side. A dark line on either side, commencing at the snout, passing through the eye, and continuing to the inset of the hind leg; on either side of the head above this dark line is a very distinct line of pale (or bright) yellow spots. The superior margin of the orbit is bordered with minute pale yellow spots. The lips are spotted alternately pale (or bright) yellow and dark brown. Lower surfaces immaculate, varying in colour from pale buff to grey or purplish brown. Sometimes the colour of the upper and lower surfaces do not merge into each other, but join in a well-defined line along the sides of the neck, body, and limbs. Tail ringed with broad dark brown bauds, separated by narrow pale yellow interspaces. Iris golden. Size. Males and females attain the same length, 120 mm. Snout to vent 60 mm. Length of tail 60 mm. Width of head 12 mm. The very depressed tail may measure at its broadest part a quarter of its length. Hab. Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo (where I met it at Brunei), Celebes. Sumba, Ombaai, Philippines, Timor Laut, New Guinea, Mascarene Islands, Seychelles, and Western Mexico. 42. LEPIDODACTYLUS CEYLONENSIS Blgr. Lepidodactylus cei/lonensis, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 164, pl. xiii. fig. 3; S. Flower, P. Z. S. 1896, p. 867. I caught a second specimen in Government House, Singapore, in October 1897. Total length 60 mm. (snt. to vnt. 32 ; tail 28). Colour. Very similar to the first Singapore specimen. Hab. Ceylon, Burma, Malay Peninsula, Engario, Java, Borneo. 43. LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS (D. & B.). Platgdactylus lugubris, Cantor, p. 16. Peripia cantoris, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 110. Lepidodactylus lugubris, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 165. Not recorded from the Straits Settlements since Cantor's time. Hab. Malay Peninsula, Bintang, Celebes, Amboyna, New Guinea, and Polynesia. 44. GECKO VERTICILLATUS (Laur.). Platydactylus gecko, Cantor, p. 17. Gecko guttatus, Giinth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 102. Gecko verticillatus, Blgr. Cat. Liz. i. p. 183. " Toke " of the Malays (apud Cantor). Siamese. "Tokay." Localities. The Great House-Lizard or Tokay is recorded from Penang, Singapore, and the Malay Peninsula, but it must be very 41* |