GONATODES. 79 



shape. Upper surface covered with uniform small granules, 

 smooth on the back, a little larger and keeled on. the snout; a few 

 erect spine-like tubercles on the flanks, liostral four-sided, nearly 

 t\\ ice as broad as deep, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral and three nasals ; 8 to 10 upper and 7 or 8 

 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; small chin- 

 shields passing gradually into the granules of the throat, which are 

 rather large, flat and suiooth. Ventral scales hexagonal, imbricate, 

 smooth. Mule with 5 to 12 femoral pores on each side; no 

 pra-anal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered with small 

 smooth scales, in its basal half with a few scattered larger tubei'cles ; 

 median series of subcaudals enlarged. Grey-broun above, clouded 

 w ith darker ; the small lateral spines white : sometimes a black 

 cervical spot ; whitish beneath, the throat sometimes brown- 

 dotted. 



From snout to vent TGo inches. 



Hah. Ceylon, 8outhera India (Lamparis Peak, 5000 feet). 



80. Gonatodes littoralis. 



Gynmodactvlus littoralis, Jcrdun, J. A. >S. B. xxii, 1853, p. 469 ; 



Theob. Cat. p. 00. 

 Gyiunodactylus planipes, Beddome, Madras Journ. Med. Sc. 1870 



Tlicob. Cat. p. 87. 

 Gonatodes littoralis, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 71, j)!. \i, tig. G. 



Habit very slender. Head long ; snout pointed, much longer 

 than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 1| to 1| 

 diameter of orbit ; forehead very slightly conca\e ; ear-opening 

 small, oval, vertical. The hind limb does not reach beyond axilla. 

 Digits strongly dilated at the base, with large plates beneath ; 

 the distal plate is the largest, longer than broad, truncated an- 

 teriorly. Upper surface covered with equal smooth granules, 

 minute on the back, much larger on the snout; a few very small 

 subconical tubercles are scattered on the flanks. Eostral large, 

 quadrangular, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above ; 

 nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals; 8 to 10 

 upper and 6 to 8 lower labials ; mental large, broadly trian- 

 gular, its posterior angle truncated ; small chin-shields passing 

 gradually into the small smooth gular granules. Ventral scales 

 hexagonal, imbricate, smooth. Males with J6 to 18 femoral pores 

 on each side ; no prseanal pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, above 

 with uniform sn)all smooth scales, beneath with a median series of 

 transversely dilated plates. Grey-brown above, generally with a 

 row of lighter dark-edged spots along the back, and a black spot 

 on the nape; nearly always a black line bordering the lower lip, 

 and extending as far as the ear ; lower surfaces w hitish. 



From snout to vent 1*35 inches ; tail 1-4. 



Hab. Malabar; Nilambiir and Nellakota, on the west side of 

 the Nilgiris ; found on trees in dry teak-forests. Jerdon's type 

 specimen was obtained in a warehouse on the sea-coast. 



