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clouded .with greyish white markings, or sometimes grey, clouded 

 with black markings; belly uniform greyish; tail uniform greyish 

 brown or sometimes with black and grey alternate bands. Pores 

 eight in a continuous line across the prseanal region, and occupy- 

 ing the same breadth as the vent: outer scales on the same row, 

 and 18-20 scales of the two anterior and some scales of the 

 posterior rows enlarged, flat, and white. One enlarged white 

 scale at the base of the tail on each side of the vent, some of the 

 subcaudals considerably enlarged, very irregularly six sided; 

 rostral plate large grooved behind, with ten small plates behind 

 it and two very small ones behind the nasal organs. Upper 

 labials 6-8, the first very large, the last 2-3 very small, lower 

 labials 6-7, the median lower labial very large, produced back 

 into a square base and entirely separating the chin shields. Pupil 

 round; length up to 3 J inches, of which the tail is 1. 



Under stones on the South Tinnevelly and Travankor hills 

 3-5000 feet." 



G. Jerdoni, Theobald. Cat. Rep., Mus. As. Soc, B., p. 31. 



Back uniformly granular. Down either side a row of distant 

 erect spines, becoming obsolete on the tail. Tail with a single 

 row of subcaudal plates, with a few large scales along their edges. 

 Colour greenish grey mottled with brown. Below greenish white. 

 Femoral pores 8 on each thigh, large, cup-shaped, bordered in 

 front by largish scales, and behind by the granular scales of 

 the back. 



Allied to Mysoriensis by its spines, and probably from some 

 part of Southern India. 



G. Humei Theobald. 



G. Mysoriensis, Fergusson, Museum label. 

 Pupil circular. Rostral large, grooved, followed by three 

 minute shields. Scales on head and body finely granular, larger 

 on the snout and some enlarged ones on the side. A row of 

 distant spiny tubercles, pointing backwards on either side of the 

 belly, between the limbs, and continued along the tail. A few 



