114 SAURIA. 



without tubercles, and with enlarged subcaudals below. Eleven upper and nine lower 

 labials ; the median lower labial is of moderate size ; the front pair of chin-shields form a 

 long suture together. Nostril immediately behind the rostral. A group of enlarged scales 

 and two pairs of pores in the prseanal region ; scales of the middle of the belly in about 

 thirty-four longitudinal series. Pupil erect, denticulated. Limbs and toes moderately 

 slender. The two terminal joints of the fingers and toes are much compressed, and distinct 

 from the basal joints, which are provided with transverse disks below. Light brownish, with 

 dark-brown markings : a broad band proceeds from behind the eye to the side of the neck, 

 where it joins two irregular broad cross bars, the one behind the occiput, and the other 

 between the shoulders ; two or three similar cross bars on the back of the trunk, and broad 

 brown rings round the tail. All these markings are much less distinct in old age than in 

 immature specimens, being indicated only by irregular black outlines. 



We have received this fiaie species only from Ceylon ; it attains to a length of 7 inches. 

 Figure D of Plate XII. represents the animal of the natural size, figure D' the anal region. 



Gymnodactylus kandiakus. 



Gymnodactylus kandianus, Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. i. p. 52. 



Body finely granular, with a few scattered conical tubercles along the side and in rings 

 across the tail ; each tubercle acute, like a spine ; some specimens are nearly entirely 

 smooth. Eight upper and seven lower labials ; the median lower labial is large, entirely 

 separating the front chin-shields, which are smaller than the first lower labial. Femoral or 

 prseanal pores none ; subcaudals generally enlarged. Pupil round. Limbs and toes slender. 

 The two terminal joints of the fingers and toes are much compressed, but not very distinct 

 from the basal joints, which are provided with transverse disks below. Brownish grey, 

 marbled with brown ; fingers and toes annulated with brown. 



This species appears to have been discovered by Kelaart, who, however, so far as we know, 

 has never described it ; specimens ■with the name of Gymnodactylus Jcandianus have been 

 sent by him to the British Museum. It is a small diurnal species, 3 inches long, and very 

 abundant on every house in Kandy and Kaduganava. 



Gymnodactylus mysoriensis. 



Gymnodactylus mysoriensis, Jerdon, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. .xxii. p. 469. 



Back granular, with two or three distant rows of spines on each side, and extending 

 along the tail ; scales of the tail imbricate, with three rows of larger nail-shaped scutes 

 below; scales of the basal joints of the fingers and toes enlarged, nail-shaped. Greyish 

 brown, with a light strijie down the centre of the back, and a series of dark-brown marks on 

 the head, back, and sides ; legs and feet" banded. 



