64 GECKONID^E. 



Head moderate, oviform, much depressed ; snout much longer 

 than the diameter of the orbit, slightly longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opeoing ; latter very small, suboval. 

 Limbs rather long ; digits long, slender, slightly depressed at the 

 base, inferiorly with well-developed lamellae. Body much depressed. 

 Head and body covered with rather large, flat, round granules, 

 some of which are slightly enlarged and generally tubercular. 

 Rostral subpentagonal, with median cleft above ; nostril between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; 10 upper and 9 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular, a little longer than broad ; 

 two or three pairs of chin-shields, median largest and forming a 

 short suture behind the mental. Abdominal scales moderate, sub- 

 hexagonal, slightly imbricate. No femoral or prseanal pores. Tail 

 swollen, depressed, about as long as head and body, ringed, with 

 three enlarged blunt tubercles at each side of the ring. Grey 

 above, with darker wavy cross bands on the back. 



From snout to vent 1-6 inches. 



Hub. Upper Indus valley in Ladak. 



56. Gymnodactylus lawderanus. 



Gymnodactylus lawderanus, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xli, 1872, p. 105, 

 pi. ii, fig. 4 ; Theob. Cat. p. 81 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 32. 



Body rather slender and elongate, depressed, covered above with 

 numerous granules intermixed with small roundish tubercles. 

 Upper side of head equally granular, the granular scales being 

 somewhat larger on the snout. Rostral large, broad ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral, the first labial, and two nasals ; 9 upper and 

 8 lower labials ; mental triangular, partially wedged in between 

 two elongate chin-shields, forming a suture below it ; each of the 

 chin-shields is followed along the labials by three other somewhat 

 rounded shields. Ear-opening small, rounded. Ventral scales 

 small. Two pairs of prseanal pores in the male, close together, 

 and forming an angle. General colour above greyish brown, very 

 densely marbled and spotted with dark brown, with some indistinct 

 undulating, whitish cross bands on the body, margined on the 

 anterior edges with blackish brown ; a somewhat indistinct dark 

 baud from the nostril through the eye to the ear ; front and hind 

 edges of the eye white ; labials spotted and speckled with brown ; 

 below whitish. 



Length of body nearly 2 inches. 



Hob. Almora, Kumaun. 



57. Gymnodactylus nebulosus. 



Gynmodactylus nebulosus, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870 ; 



'Theob. Cat. p. 84; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 34, pi. iv, fig. 1. 

 Gymnodactylus speciosus, Bedd. I. c. ; Theob. I. c. p. 83. 

 Gymnodactylus collegalensis, Bedd. 1. c. ; Theob. I. c. 



Head rather large, oviform, generally very convex, sometimes 



