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Family II. EUBLEPHARID^. 



Differ from the Geckonidce, to which they are closely related, in 

 having the vertebrae opisthocceloas and the parietal bones united, 

 as in the normal Lacertilia. Distinguished externally from all 

 Indian Geckonidce by the presence of connivent eyelids, another 

 character in which they agree with the normal Lacertilia. 



Only three genera are known, viz. Psilodactylus (West Africa), 

 Eublepharis (Southern Asia and Central America), and Goleonyx 

 (Central America). 



Genus EUBLEPHARIS, 

 Gray, Phil. Mag. (2) ii, 1827, p. 56. 



Digits short and cylindrical, with a row of lamellae below, 

 clawed, the claws only partially retractile into a small sheath. 

 Pupil vertical. Males with praeanal pores. 



Distribution. Southern Asia ; Central America, and Southern 

 North America. 



Five species are known, three of which are American. 



Synopsis of Indian Species. 



Dorsal tubercles broader than interspaces E. hardwickii, p. 107. 



Dorsal tubercles not broader than interspaces .... E. macularius, p. 108. 



112. Eublepharis hardwickii. 



Eublepharis hardwickii, Gray, Phil. Mag. (2) ii, p. 56; Gilnth. Re.pt. 



B. I. p. 110, pi. xi, fig. B ; Theob. Cat. p. 94 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, 



p. 231. 

 Gymnodactylus lunatus, Blyth, in Cantor, J. A. S. B. xvi, 1847, 



p. 633 ; id. xxiii, 1854, p. 210. 



Body stout ; limbs rather short ; digits short. Snout as long as 

 distance between orbit and ear-opening ; the latter large, suboval, 

 vertical. Head covered with irregular polygonal scales, intermixed 

 with enlarged tubercles on the temple and occiput ; rostral sub- 

 pentagonal, twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; 3 or 4 

 internasals ; about 10 upper and as many lower labials ; mental 

 broadly pentagonal, in contact with two enlarged chin-shields, 

 surrounded by irregular smaller ones passing gradually into the 

 flat granules of the gular region. Body covered above with small, 

 irregular, flat scales, intermixed with numerous roundish, subconical 

 tubercles ; these tubercles larger than the interspaces between 

 them. Male with 14 to ISpraaanal pores. Tail swollen, rounded, 

 tapering at the end, verticillated, above with small flat scales 

 and rows of enlarged subconical tubercles, beneath with larger 

 flat scales arranged regularly. Above reddish brown and cream- 

 coloured; the former colour occupies the head and forms two 



