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Inhabits Ceylon (Kadugunava, Kelaarfc,) Burmah, the Anda- 

 man Islands, Pinang, &c. 



P. Cantoris, Gunther. 



Very similar in general appearance to Peronii, but no chin 

 shields. Chin covered with scales a little larger than the very 

 minute ones on the throat. No enlarged sub-caudal plates. 

 Cutaneous fold of the ham rudimentary. Colour olive brown 

 with some scattered velvet black spots. Beneath white, minutely 

 brown dotted. 



Inhabits Pinang, Birmah, and the Andaman and Nikobar 

 Islands. 



In some specimens of Peripia the pneumatic lamellge are only 

 angularly bent and not divided, indicating the close relation of 

 this genus to Gecko. 



Gymnodactylus. 



Fingers and toes with transverse pneumatic plates below on 

 their basal joints only, less disciform than in Hemldactylus. The 

 two terminal joints of each foot free; claws 5 on all feet. 



Section A, tail generally de-presssd. House geckoids. Pupils 



elliptical. 



G. frsenatus, Giinther. 



Back granular, with six or eight series of very small tubercles. 

 Tail uniformly granular with enlarged sub-caudals. Colour light 

 brown, with darker markings. A broad band from behind the 

 eye to the side of the neck where it joins two irregular broad 

 cross bars, one behind the occiput, the other between the 

 shoulders. Two or three similar bars across the back, and broad 

 brown rings round the tail. In adults only the dark margins of 

 these bands remain. 



Pupil denticulated. Prseanal pores two on each side. Length 

 7 inches. ., 



Inhabits Ceylon. 



Young ones coloured or Eithlepharis Hardwichii, fide Giinther, 

 Auuals and Mag., N. H., 1872, Vol. ix, p. 8G. 



