EUBLEPHARIS HARDWICKII. 119 



posed of black tubercles interspersed among the rest, and a series of broad dark annnli on 

 the tail. Labials alternately dark brown and white. 



Length about 5 inches, of which the tail is half. A common species at Port Blair 

 (Andaman Islands). 



The characters of the genus and species have been given after Blyth. 



EUBLEPHARIS, Gray. 



Fingers and toes not dilated or depressed, rather short, all clawed, and 

 with a single series of simple, transverse, narrow scales below. The up])er 

 eyelid broad, prominent, the lower well developed. Tail cylindrical, tapering. 



The single species of this genus differs in many respects from the Geckos. The form of 

 its head and trunk is similar to that of the Geckos, but it is evidently a ground lizard, 

 unable to climb walls or other erect objects with smooth surface. Its toes are not dilated at 

 all, and rather short, without plates beneath, covered with transverse scales only, as in many 

 other lizards. The claws are short. The head, body, and limbs are covered with tubercles, 

 which are unequal in size on the back and the sides, the larger tubercles being separated 

 from one another by a series of smaller ones. The lower parts are covered with small, 

 imbricate, rhombic scales. A series of prseanal pores in the male, absent in the female ; 

 there is an obtuse tubercle at the root of the tail, on each side behind the vent ; tail thick, 

 conical, verticillated, covered with rings of small subquadrangular scales, which pass into flat 

 tubercles on the back of the tail ; the tail is fragile and easily reproduced. 



The tongue is flat, oblong, slightly nicked in front ; teeth small, compressed. The nostril 

 is lateral, in a single plate, situated above the first upper labial ; a pair of small shields above 

 and behind the rostral. The upper eyelid is broad, projecting, moveable, the lower well 

 developed, granular. The pupil is subelliptical ; tympanum very thin, deeply sunk. 



EUBLEPHAKIS HAEDWICKII. (Plate XI. fig. B.) 



Eublepharis hardwickii, Gray, Zool. Journ. 'in. p. 223. 



Pale reddish white : the upper part of the head from the nose to the nape, two very broad 

 bands across the trunk, and three or four rings round the tail deep brown or black, the brown 

 portions being edged with black, and broader than the ground-colour. Limbs reddish oli^e. 

 with black dots on the elbows and knees. There are ten upper and lower labials ; two chin- 

 shields larger than the first lower labial. The scales of the middle of the belly form thirty 

 longitudinal series ; seventeen pores in an angular series in the prseanal region. 



