112 SAUEIA. 



PHELSUMA, Gray. 



Fingers and toes free, rather elongate, with the base rather slender and 

 with the extremity dilated, ovate below, provided with undivided, imbricate, 

 transverse plates ; claws none. 



We admit this genus on account of a species described by Mr. Blyth as follows : — 



Phelsuma andamanense. 



Phelsuma andamanense, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxix. p. 108. 



Opening of the ear round ; chin with a series of five plates of equal size, and larger than 

 the rest, anteriorly adjoining the labial plates; no femoral or prseanal pores. A pale mesial 

 line commences on the nape and is continued half way along the back, the rest of the upper 

 parts being sprinkled with numerous orange spots ; disks of the toes dark-coloured. 



Andaman Islands. Head and body 2 inches, tail (renewed) If inch. 



GYMNODACTYLUS, Spix. 



Eacli finger and toe is composed of two portions : a basal portion, 

 depressed, and provided with a series of transverse plates beneath ; and a 

 terminal portion formed by two compressed, more or less slender phalanges ; 

 claws five to each foot, free, without sheath. Tail cylindrical, tapering. 



We refer the following species from British India to this genus : — 



* Back and sides yramilar, vnth intermixed larger tubercles. 



Tubercles numerous, trihedral ; body uniformly coloured G. triedrus, \:). 113. 



Tubercles numerous, conical; body -(vitli regiilar broad black cross bands G. pulchellus, p. 113. 

 Tubercles in six or eight series; body with irregular dark cross bands . G.franatus, p. 11.3. 

 A few minute, spine-like tubercles on the side ; a single series of subcaudals G. kandianus, p. 114. 

 Two or three distant rows of spines on each side ; three series of subcaudals G. mysoriensis, p. 114. 

 ^* Back and sides uniformly granular, without tubercles. 



Five or six lower labials G. indicus,-^. 115. 



(G. malabaricus et G. littoralis, p. 115.) 

 *** Back covered with uniformly large tubercles, not separated by granulations. 



Trunk with three regular, white, black-edged cross bands G. deccanertsis, ■^. \\^. 



Trunk marbled or irregularly cross- banded G. variegatus, p. 116. 



{Gymnodactylus fasciolatus , p. 116.) 



