GYMNODACTYLUS DECCANENSIS. 115 



Two and a half inches long. Bangalore, frequenting rocks and also entering out-houses. 

 The young has the tail flesh-coloured. Two or three femoral pores on each side. We have 

 never seen this species. 



Gyiinodactylds indicds. 



Goniodactylus indicus, Gray, Ann. £(■ Mag. Nat. Hist. 1846, x^iii. p. 429. Jerdon, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. xxii. p. 469. 



Head depressed, rather short, of moderate size. Body and tail uniformly coarsely 

 granular, without tubercles ; tail without enlarged subcaudals. Eight upper and five or six 

 lower labials ; the median lower labial is very large, entirely separating the chin-shields 

 from each other. Nostril immediately behind the rostral ; pupil round. Femoral or prse- 

 anal pores none. Limbs and toes moderately slender. The two terminal joints of the 

 fingers and toes are compressed, and not very distinct from the basal joints, which have 

 transverse disks below. Brownish or greenish, irregularly marbled with darker along the 

 vertebral line. 



A small species from the NUgherries, three inches long. Jerdon says that it conceals itself 

 under stones in the daytime ; whilst we should have supposed it to be a diurnal species, 

 as it has the pupil of the eye round. He procured it on the top of Dodabetta, the highest 

 mountain of the group, and has also found it in Coorg. Its colours, Avhen fresh, are of a 

 mottled brown, or greenish brown, mth a row of yellow spots along the back, edged with 

 darker, and a series of similarly coloured spots on each side. 



Mr. Jerdon distinguishes two other species Avith a uniform granular covering of the back, 

 but they are so insufficiently characterized that it will be difficult to recognize them : — 



a. G. malabaricus, Jerd. /. c. p. 469. — Dark brown above, marbled with black spots, and a white spot 

 on the nape. 2^ inches long. Forest of Malabar. 



b. G. littoraUs, Jerd. /. c. — Very slender ; pale brown, with a series of paler marks along the back and 

 tail ; a 1)lack spot on the nape. 2^ inches long. Sea-coast of Malabar. 



Gymnodactylus DECCANENSIS. (Plate XII. fig. E.) 



Head finely granular ; body covered with flat subequal tubercles of moderate size, disposed 

 in transverse series ; tail rounded, tapering, covered with rings of square subequal scales ; 

 ventral scales small; (femoral and praeanal pores none, in the single specimen observed). 

 Eleven upper and nine lower labials ; the front pair of chin-shields are oblong, and form a 

 suture together. Limbs and toes rather slender; the two terminal joints of the fingers 

 and toes are much compressed, and not very distinct from the basal joints, which are pro- 

 vided with very narrow transverse scales not dilated into disks. Reddish olive, with narrow 



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