116 . SAURIA. 



white, black-edged cross bands : the first is semicii'cular, running from one eye across the 

 nape to the other eye; trunk with three and tail with five or six bands; a similar band 

 across the forearm and across the lower hind leg. 



This pretty species was discovered by Colonel Sykes in the Deccan ; a single specimen 

 in the British Museum is i^ inches long. 



Gymnodactylus variegatus. 



Naultinus variegatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Beng. 1859, xxviii. p. 279. 



" Ungual and penultimate phalanges of toes long and compressed. Body and sides 

 uniformly studded with large tubercles, which gradually disappear on the tail ; the lower 

 parts covered with large flat scales, bounded by a prominent ridge on each flank : series of 

 femoral pores extending quite across, and behind these, anterior to the vent, four scales 

 larger than the rest : a few small scales posterior to the vent, followed by a series of broad 

 subcaudal plates. Scales upon head and throat minute, those on the face anterior to the 

 eyes larger. Eyes large, with vertical pupils. Colour grey, beautifully spotted and marbled 

 with black, set off" with subdued white. Lower parts whitish, freckled on the tail with 

 black, and gradually more of this to the extremity, the terminal third being almost wholly 

 blackish ; above, the tail is irregularly banded. A broad dark streak bordered with whitish 

 behind each eye, and continued irregularly round the occiput. On the back the markings 

 appear as irregular bands, paler internally and blackish on their zigzag borders, most difficult 

 to describe intelligibly ; the head above is spotted and not banded." 



Moulmein. Entii'e length 6|- inches, of which the tail measures 3f inches. 



Gymnodactylus C?) fasciolatus. 



Naultinus (?) fasciolatus, Blylh, Journ. As. Soc. Bmg. xxix. p. 114. 



A dark band from behind the eye, abruptly bent to meet its opposite on tlie occiput ; twenty-three 

 other blackish cross bands continued to the end of the tail, those of the body being edged with whitish 

 posteriorly ; subcaudals enlarged ; no larger scales before the vent. 



Subathoo. -Ij inches long, of which the taU is 2f inches. 



It is very doubtful whether this species belongs to the present genus ; Mr. Blyth has com- 

 pared it with G. variegatus and considers it as congeneric with that species. The colouj-s 

 are the only character given by him by which we may recognize this species. 



