GECKO. 101 



little shorter than the adjacent labials, followed by a small median 

 chin-shield ; behind the labials small irregular scales passing gradu- 

 ally into the minute granules of the throat. Dorsal scales minutely 

 granular ; abdominal scales very small, subimbricate. Five angular 

 series of prseanal pores, the two upper extending as long femoral 

 series ; 50 pores in the upper series, from one end to the other. 

 Tail rounded, tapering, covered with very small subquadrangular 

 juxtaposed scales arranged in verticils. Greyish above, indistinctly 

 marbled with darker ; lower surfaces dirty white, immaculate. 



From snout to vent 5 inches. 



Hob. This species was described in 1836 from specimens said to 

 have been brought from Bengal by Alfred Duvaucel ; but it has 

 not been rediscovered since. 



106. Hoplodactylus anamallensis. 



Gecko anamallensis, Giinth. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 226. 



Hoplodactylus anamallensis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 175, pi. xiv, fig. 2. 



Head shortly oviform ; snout a little longer than distance between 

 eye and ear-opening, li diameter of orbit ; forehead very slightly 

 concave ; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs 

 moderate. Digits free, not very strongly dilated, inner well 

 developed : infradigital lamellae openly angular, 5 under the 

 inner digits, 6 or 7 under the median fingers, and 7 or 8 under 

 the median toes. Upper surfaces uniformly granular, the granules 

 scarcely larger on the snout than on the back. Rostral four- 

 sided, more than twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced be- 

 tween rostral, first labial, and three nasals ; 9 or 10 upper and 

 7 or 8 lower labials ; mental broadly triangular or pentagonal ; 

 two pairs of larger chin-shields anteriorly, followed by smaller 

 ones passing gradually into the granules of the throat ; abdominal 

 scales cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Male with an uninterrupted 

 series of femoral pores, 20 or 21 on each side. Tail cylin- 

 drical, tapering, slightly depressed at the base, above with small 

 imbricate scales, beneath with a median series of transversely 

 dilated plates. Grey-brown above, spotted or marbled with 

 darker; a few scattered lighter dots; lower surfaces brownish 

 white. 



From snout to vent 1'75 inches ; tail 1'4. 



Hub. Anamallays, S. India. 



Genus GECKO, 

 Laureuti, Syn. Kept. p. 43, 1768. 



Digits strongly dilated, free or webbed at the base, with undi- 

 vided lamellae below, all but the thumb and inner toe with a very 

 short compressed distal phalanx with retractile claw. Head and 

 back covered with juxaposed granular scales or tubercles, belly with 



