70 GECKONID^E. 



twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above, and entering the 

 nostril to a considerable extent; the latter directed backward, pierced 

 between the rostral, the first labial, and three or four nasals ; 10 

 to 13 upper and 10 to 12 lower labials ; mental triangular ; two or 

 three pairs of chin-shields, median largest and in contact behind 

 the point of the mental ; throat minutely granulate. Body and 

 limbs above with small flat granules intermixed with small roundish, 

 keeled, subtrihedral tubercles ; a series of keeled tubercles from 

 axilla to groin, limiting the abdominal region ; ventral scales cycloid, 

 imbricate, moderately large. Males with a longitudinal groove on 

 the pubic region containing two parallel series of praeanal pores, 

 forming a right angle with a long series of femoral pores ; 

 altogether 18 to 20 pores on each side, 4 or 5 of which are in 

 the groove. Tail cylindrical, tapering, above with small flat scales 

 and annuli of feebly keeled tubercles, beneath with a series of 

 large transverse plates. Light brown above, with broad chestnut- 

 brovvn, light^edged cross bands, which are narrower than the inter- 

 spaces between them ; the anterior horseshoe- shaped, from eye 

 to eye over the nape; the second crescent-shaped, on scapular 

 region ; three others on the body ; tail with chestnut-brown 

 complete annuli ; lower surfaces dirty white. 



From snout to vent 4 inches ; tail 5. 



Hob. Malay Peninsula ; said to occur also in Bengal. 



67. Gymnodactylus variegatns. 



Naultinus variegatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxviii, 1859, p. 279. 

 Gynmodactylus variegatus, Giinth. Kept. B. I. p. 116; Theob. Cat. 

 p. 92 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 43. 



Limbs and digits slender ; the basal joints not very distinct from 

 the distal ones, which are strongly compressed, and provided with 

 transverse imbricate plates below and a series of much smaller ones 

 on the compressed phalanges, llostral notched behind and grooved ; 

 nostril between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 10 or 

 11 upper and 11 lower labials ; mental partially wedged in between 

 two large chin-shields, which form a broad suture with each other. 

 Body granular, with numerous large trihedral tubercles. 26 lon- 

 gitudinal rows of rather elongate leaf-like scales on the middle of 

 the belly. A fold of skin along the side, indicating where the 

 abdominal scales terminate and the granules begin. 16 femoral 

 pores on each side along the whole length of the thigh. Tail cylin- 

 drical, the granules arranged in verticils, and the tubercles in rings ; 

 a series of enlarged subcaudals. Grey above, spotted and marbled 

 with black, set off with subdued white; a broad dark streak 

 bordered with whitish behind each eye, and continued irregularly 

 round the occiput ; tail irregularly banded above ; lower parts 

 whitish. 



Total length about 6 inches, the tail measuring nearly half that 

 length. 



Hob. Mouknein. 



Both this and the following species are unknown to me. 



