86 



GECKONIDJE. 



Hah. Southern India and Ceylon, China, Tndo-China, Burma, 

 Malay peninsula and Archipelago, Islands of the Western Pacific 

 and Indian Oceans. 



86, Hemidactylus gleadovii. 



Hemidactylus maculatus, Kelaart, Prodi: p. 158 ; Gilnth. Rept. B. 



I. p. 107 ; Theoh. Cut. p. 7o. 

 ? Gecko tytleri, Tytler, J. A. 8. B. xxxiii, 1864, p. 547. 

 Hemidactylus gleadowi, Murrmj, Zooh Smd, p. 3G0, pi. — , fig. 3 ; 



Bouleiu/. Cat. Liz. i, p. 1:^9. 

 Hemidactylus kushniorensis *, Murray, A. M. N. H. (5) xiv, 1884, 



p. 109; Bold. I. c. p. 135. 

 Hemidactylus mul■ra^■i, Gleadoio, Journ. Bomb. K H. Sue. ii, 1887, 



p. 49. 



Head OA'iforin ; snout longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, \\ to Ig the diameter of the orbit ; forehead 

 concave ; ear-opening oval, oblique, about half the diameter of the 



Fig. 27. — Hemidactylus gleadovii. 



eye. Body and limbs moderate. Digits moderately dilated, free, 

 inner well developed ; infradigital lamella; \^ith strongly curved 

 anterior border, 4 to under the inner digits, G to 8 under the 

 median. Head covered anteriorly Avith convex granular, some- 



* Si^eciinens recently received from Mr. Murray, as typical of his H. kush- 

 morensis from Upper Sind, are identical with H. gleadovii. The dorsal tubercles 

 are keeled. 



