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fed before. It is also frequently met with on trees and on rocks. The female lays three or 

 four eggs, in crevices of old walls or in the hollows of trees. 



Hemidactylus leschenaultii. 



Hemidactylus leschenaultii, Bum. ^ Bibr. iii. p. 364<. 



? Hemidactylus leschenaultii, Jerd. Calc. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 468. 



Very similar to H. frcenatus, with which it agrees in the structure, size, and number of the 

 scales and tubercles. Eleven or twelve upper and ten lower labials. The series of femoral 

 pores are not continued on into the praeanal region. Olive-coloured, marbled with grey. 



1 have received this species only from Madras and from the Anamallay Mountains, where 

 it was found by Captain R. H. Beddome. The largest specimen is 5^ inches long. 



The following description of a Hemidactylus has been given by Mr. Jerdon ; it does not contain any 

 character of importance by which this Gecko may be distinguished from the others : — 



Hemidactylus punctatus, Jerd. Calc. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 467. " Back with some larger 

 conical scales, and subcaudal scutes very large; scales of abdomen dotted, brown above; limbs and tail 

 reddish, with dark bands ; a pale-yellow streak from muzzle to tail, bordered beneath by a dark line ; 

 another dark line from nostrils to behind the eye." A single specimen was obtained in a house at 

 Tellicherry, 



Hemidactylus coctjei. 



Hemidactylus coctsei, Dum. §■ Bibr. iii. (1836) p. 365. Cantor, Mai. Rept. p. 23. 

 BoltaKa sublsevis. Gray, Zool. Misc. 1842, p. 58. Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. ii. p. 18.* 



Back uniform gi-anular, without tubercles, except a short series of four or five very small 

 ones running on each side of the sacral region. Tail rather depressed at the base, verticil- 

 lated, finely granular above, with an enlarged, scale-like tubercle on each side of the lower 

 part of each verticillus. From twelve to fourteen upper and eleven or twelve lower labials. 

 The scales of the middle of the belly form thii'ty-six longitudinal series. The series of 

 femoral poi'es are not continued on into the praeanal region. Olive-coloured, uniform or 

 marbled with grey. 



Localities. — Patna, Pinang, Bombay, Ceylon. Length 6 or 7 inches. Living on trees and 

 on the roofs of houses. 



The thumb of this species has a minute claw, which is easily lost, and then the species 

 may be (and has been) described as having a clawless thumb. 



* Kelaart (Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. i. p. 160) mentions a Hemidactylus coctcei as a species distinct from 

 Boltalia sublavis ; I have not been able to identify this H. coctati of Kelaart. 



