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No femoral or prseanal pores. No plates on the chin beneath, 

 except the lower labials. Length 6^ to 7 inches, of which the 

 tail is 3^ to 3^ ; length of fore-limb 1^ inch, hind-limbs 1| inch. 

 Of a brilliant golden colour, freckled with brown over the whole 

 of the upper surface (the yellow colour turns nearly white in 

 spirits). Amongst rocks in dark shady ravines on the Tripathy 

 hills in North Arcot." 



It seems improbable (in the absence of any direct statement as 

 to the sex of Beddome's specimen), that the males should possess 

 no femoral pores. 



Hemidactylus, Cuvier. 



Fingers and toes dilated, ovate, with a double row of trans- 

 verse penumatically adhesile plates below. Toes and claws live 

 on each foot. 



a. Back granular, with trihedral tubercles, more or less numer- 

 ously interspersed. 



H. triedrus, Daud. 



Back with numerous trihedral tubercles, some of which are 

 as large as the opening of the ear. Back of the tail with cross 

 rows of similar tubercles. Colour brownish olive ; some of the 

 tubercles white, surrounded by a brown ring ; these rings are 

 sometimes confluent into cross bands. A brown white-edged 

 streak behind the eye. Femoral pores 7 or 8 in each thigh. 

 Length 7 inches. 



Inhabits Ceylon, Southern and Central India. 



H. sub-triedrus, Jerdon. J. A. S., B., 1853, p. 467. 

 This form is probably only a local race of the last from which 

 it differs in its rather shorter head, smaller scales on the muzzle 

 and throat, and smaller tubercles on the back. It is the Sookha 

 buUee of the " Yanadees" who distinguished it from triedrus, 

 which they term Deowur bullee. Length 7 inches. 



H. maculatus, D. et B. 

 Back with numerous trihedral tubercles of moderate size, all 

 considerably smaller than the opening of the ear. Tail depressed 



