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and three or four nasals ; 10 to 12 upper and 8 to 10 lower labials ; 

 mental large, triangular or pentagonal, twice as long as the 

 adjacent labials ; four large chin-shields, median pair largest, 

 forming a long suture behind the point of the mental. Upper 

 surface of body covered with small flat granules intermixed with 

 trihedral tubercles, forming 16 to 20 very irregular longitudinal 

 series ; the largest tubercles measure about one fourth the dia- 

 meter of the eye. Abdominal scales moderate, smooth, rounded, 

 imbricate. Males with a long series of femoral pores interrupted 

 mesially ; 17 or 18 pores on each side. Tail tapering, much de- 

 pressed, flat below, with angular lateral edge ; it is covered above 

 with small pointed imbricate scales, which are enlarged and raised 

 on the sides, forming a strong denticulation, and with six or eight 

 series of spine-like tubercles forming rings ; a median series of 

 regular transversely dilated plates beneath. Upper parts light 

 brown, marbled or cross-barred with brown; a dark brown streak, 

 white-edged above, on the side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 3-2 inches ; tail 3. 



Hob. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



93. Hemidactylus leschenaultii. 



Hemidactvlus leschenaultii, Bum. 8f Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii, p. 364; 



Giinth. 'Kept. B. I. p. 109 ; Theob. Cat. p. 77 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. 



i, p. 136. 



Hemidactylus coctaei, part., Giinth. 1. c. p. 109. 

 Hemidactylus kelaartii, Theob. Cat. Kept. As. Soc. Mus. p. 29. 

 Hemidactylus marrnoratus, Blanf. J. A. 8. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, 



p. 363, pi. xvi, figs. 1-3. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, 1 3 to If the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave, the 

 supraorbital ridges prominent in full-grown specimens ; ear-opening 

 rather large, oval, vertical. Body and limbs moderate. A slight 

 fold of the skin on the side of the belly, from axilla to groin. 

 Digits free, strongly dilated, inner well developed ; 6 or 7 (rarely 

 5) Iamella3 under the inner digits, 9 to 11 under the median. 

 Head covered with minute granules posteriorly, with larger ones 

 anteriorly; rostral four-sided, not twice as broad as deep, with 

 median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, three 

 nasals, and generally the first labial ; 10 to 12 upper and 8 

 or 9 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; two 

 pairs of chin-shields, the inner the larger and in contact behind the 

 mental. Tipper surface of body covered with small granules, uni- 

 form or intermixed with more or less numerous scattered round 

 tubercles. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male 

 with a series of femoral pores interrupted on the praeanal region ; 

 12 to 16 pores on each side. Tail depressed, flat below, covered 

 above with small smooth scales and six longitudinal series of 

 conical tubercles ; beneath with a median series of transversely 

 dilated plates. Grey above, with darker markings, forming undu- 



