86 



GECKONID^E. 



Hob. Southern India and Ceylon, China, Indo-China, Burma, 

 Malay peninsula and Archipelago, Islands of the Western Pacific 

 and Indian Oceans. 



86. Hemidactylus gleadovii 



Hemidactylus maculatus, Kelaart, Prodr. p. 158 ; Giinth. Kept. B. 



I. p. 107 ; Theob. Cut. p. 75. 



? Gecko tytleri, Tytler, J. A. S. B. xxxiii, 1864, p. 547. 

 Hemidactylus gleadowi, Murray, Zoo/. Sind, p. 360, pi. , fig. 3 ; 



Bouleny. Cat. Liz. \, p. 129. 

 Hemidactylus kushmorensis *, Murray, A. M. N. H. (5) xiv, 1884, 



p. 109 ; Soul. 1. c. p. 135. 

 Hemidactylus murrayi, Gleadow, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Sac. ii, 1887, 



p. 49. 



Head oviform ; snout longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, 1^ to 1 the diameter of the orbit; forehead 

 concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, about half the diameter of the 



Fig. 27. Hemidactylus gleadovii. 



eye. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderately dilated, free, 

 inner well developed ; iufradigital lamell with strongly curved 

 anterior border, 4 to G under the inner digits, 6 to 8 under the 

 median. Head covered anteriorly with convex granular, soine- 



* Specimens recently received from Mr. Murray, as typical of his H. kush- 

 morensis from Upper Sind, are identical with H. gleadovii. The dorsal tubercles 

 are keeled. 



