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tail. Colour dark brown marked with black spots, pale edged, 

 and a white spot on the nape. Length 2 "40 inches. 

 Inhabits forests of Malabar. 



G. Wicksii Stol. J. A. S., 1873, Part II, p. 165. 

 . Body depressed covered with very small keeled tubercles 

 with some larger white ones dispersed over the back and sides 

 these last being distinctly spinulose. Tail verticillate as in 

 Hemiductylubs frcanatus. Scales enlarged on the snout but not 

 above the labials. Rostral followed by two small shields separated 

 by a smaller pentagonal shield. Nostril behind the rostral and 

 followed by two slightly enlarged and diverging shields, which 

 nearly separate the nostril from the first labial. 7 upper and 

 lower labials, the first the longest, the last very small in both. 

 Mental large followed by an enlarged shield. No enlarged chin 

 shields, scales on throat and chest finely keeled ; on the belly, 

 hexagonal and in 19 longitudinal rows. No enlarged prseanals 

 or postanals. Subcaudals scarcely enlarged. 



Praeanal pores in the male four, and femoral pores four or five in 

 each thigh. 



Colour above "powdered brownish grey and white" with a 

 vertebral row of white spots extending to the tail almost 

 continuously; edged before and on the side with black. Side of 

 body, tail and upper surface of limbs thinly checkered with black. 

 A dark streak from eye to the snout, and three more to the ear, 

 occiput, and gape. Labials white spotted. 



Inhabits Preparis Island. 



Length, 2-50 inches (tail 1-37). 



G. Caspicus Eich. Nov. Mem. Soc. Mos, 1841, Tom. vii, p. 114. 



G. geckoides Spix. Blyth. J. A. S., XXII, p. 410. 

 Stoliczka. Proc. A. Soc, B., 1872, p. 80. 

 General character much as in Kachensis, but head shields 

 coarser and carinate, and the tubercles on the back closer and 

 larger ; as large as the ear, some being white and separated by one 

 or two rows of granular scales. 11 upper and 8-9 lower labials. 

 Two pairs of enlarged chin shield scales on the belly in 18-20 



