80 GECKONID-E. 



Genus CALODACTYLUS, 



Beddoine, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870, p. 30. 



Digits slender at the base, free, with squarish scales beneath, 

 with large trapezoidal penultimate and distal expansions, the lower 

 surface of each of which is covered by two large plates separated 

 by a longitudinal groove ; all the digits clawed, the claw retractile 

 between the distal plates ; in the inner digit the penultimate 

 expansion is absent. Body covered above with small granular 

 scales, intermixed with larger tubercles; abdominal scales juxta- 

 posed. Pupil vertical. No pra?anal or femoral pores. 



Southern India. 



a b 



Fig. 24. Foot of Calodactylus aureus : a, upper ; b, lower surface. 



81. Calodactylus aureus. 



Calodactylus aureus, Bedd. Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870, p. 30, 

 pi. ii. ; Theob. Cat. p. 74 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 108. 



Head large, oviform, very distinct from neck ; a strong rounded 

 supraorbital and canthal ridge ; five deep concavities, viz. a frontal, 

 two postnasals, and two loreals ; snout longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, 1^ the diameter of the 

 orbit ; ear-opening vertical, measuring half the diameter of the eye. 

 Body not much depressed. Limbs long, slender. The width of 

 the digital expansion measures about half the diameter of the eye. 

 Head covered with very small granules, largest on the canthal 

 ridges ; rostral four-sided, twice as broad as high, its posterior 

 border concave ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first 

 labial, and three nasals, the anterior large and in contact with its 

 fellow ; 12 or 13 upper and as many lower labials ; mental as 

 large as the adjacent labials, or smaller than them ; no regular 

 chin-shields, but small polygonal scales passing gradually into 

 the granules which cover the gular region. Upper surface 

 covered with minute granules ; back with scattered, scarcely pro- 

 minent, smooth, round, larger tubercles, hardly as large as the 

 ventral scales ; the latter flat, smooth, squarish, juxtaposed, 



