84 GECKONIDJE. 



a. Back with numerous small convex 



tubercles H. karenorum, p. 93. 



/3, Back uniformly granular H. garnoti, p. 04. 



b'. Digits nearly half-webbed ; a much de- 

 veloped cutaneous expansion from 

 axilla to groin H. platyunis, p. 95. 



83. Hemidactylus reticnlatus. 



Hemidactylus reticulatus, Beddome, Madr. Journ. Med. Sc. 1870; 

 Boulcng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 118, pi. xi, fig. 2. 



Head short, oviform, very convex ; snout a little longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening and than the diameter 

 of the orbit; forehead not concave; ear-opening small, roundish. 

 Body and limbs short. Digits short, free, with very short distal 

 joints, moderately dilated ; 5 or 6 lamellae under the inner digits, 

 7 or 8 under the fourth finger, and 8 or 9 under the fourth toe. 

 Snout covered with keeled granules ; the rest of the head with 

 smaller grannies intermixed with round tubercles. Eostral four- 

 sided, not twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above ; nostril 

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

 9 or 10 upper and 7 to 9 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or 

 pentagonal ; four chin-shields, inner pair largest and in contact 

 behind the point of the mental. Body covered above with coarse 

 granules intermixed with numerous irregularly arranged, small, 

 round, keeled tubercles. Abdominal scales rather small, cycloid, 

 imbricate, smooth. Male with G to 9 praeanal pores forming an 

 angular series. Tail cylindrical, taparing, covered above with 

 small granular scales and rings of six or eight large conical 

 tubercles, beneath with uniform small imbricated scales. Brown 

 above, with a network of darker lines ; many of the tubercles 

 whitish ; lower surfaces whitish, the throat sometimes vermiculated 

 with brown. 



From snout to vent I'oo inches. 



Hab. Southern India (Colegal, Shevaroys). 



84. Hemidactylus gracilis. 



Hemidactylus gracilis, lilanford, J. A. S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, 

 p. 362, pi. xvi, figs. 4-6 ; Theob. Cat. p. 76 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, 

 p. 119. 



Head narrow, elongate ; snout a little longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, 1^ or 14 the diameter of 

 the orbit ; forehead not concave ; ear-opening small, roundish. 

 Body and limbs slender, feebly depressed. Digits free, very feebly 

 dilated, inner well developed ; the distal joint short ; 5 lamellae 

 under the inner digit, 7 under the fourth finger, and 9 under the 

 fourth toe. Snout with rather large polygonal rugose scales; 

 hinder part of head with small granules. Rostral four-sided, not 

 twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 



