. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 9, p. 104 Asiatic Herpetological Research 2001. Figure 2. Ptychozoon lionotum (Adult female, BNHM 1445) from Mizoram, northeast India. On 6th April 1999. SP, along with his field assis- tant, spotted the second Ptychozoon at 1820 hrs, next to a dirt track in a patch of mature evergreen forest south of NWLS houndary. -40 km (straight-line) south of the first locality. NWLS is the only remaining patch of unfragmented. mature primary forest in the area, characterized by a three-tiered structure,
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. Vol. 9, p. 104 Asiatic Herpetological Research 2001. Figure 2. Ptychozoon lionotum (Adult female, BNHM 1445) from Mizoram, northeast India. On 6th April 1999. SP, along with his field assis- tant, spotted the second Ptychozoon at 1820 hrs, next to a dirt track in a patch of mature evergreen forest south of NWLS houndary. -40 km (straight-line) south of the first locality. NWLS is the only remaining patch of unfragmented. mature primary forest in the area, characterized by a three-tiered structure, with towering, buttressed, deciduous emergents up to 50- 60m in height, followed by middle and tertiary can- opy trees (Pawar. 1999). This area, especially the Ngengpui valley, experiences five rainless months, but the effective dry period is much shorter, with humid- ity being consistently high during these months due to fine, localized precipitation from cloud and fog. This individual was smaller than the first one and was spot- ted at a height of 5 m on the trunk of a Sterculia scaphigera tree. The tree is characterized by a deeply fluted trunk and a smooth but slightly flaking bark, and occurs as a deciduous canopy-emergent in pri- mary evergreen forest above 500 m elevation. The patch of forest was on a slope at an altitude of approx- imately 450 m. and the tree (385 cm in girth at shoul- der height) was towards the edge of the patch, slightly down slope, about 3 m from the dirt track and the observers. The gecko was sitting on the outer ridge of one of the trunk folds with its head pointing down- ward, barely visible on the lichen-covered bark. It was twilight, and upon sighting it. SP observed the animal for about a minute with the aid of a torch and binocu- lars before attempting to capture it. Meanwhile, the gecko had apparently become wary and steadily started moving laterally in the manner of the first indi- vidual away from the two observers, towards the other side
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