HEMIDACTTLUS. 91 



and three or four nasals ; 10 to 12 npper and S to Kl lower labials ; 

 mental large, triangular or pentagonal, twice as long as the 

 adjacent labials ; four large chin-shields, median pair largest, 

 forming a long suture behind the point of the mental. Upper 

 surface of body covered with small flat granules intermixed with 

 trihedral tubercles, forming 16 to 20 very irregular longitudinal 

 series ; the largest tubercles measure about one fourth the dia- 

 meter of the eye. Abdominal scales moderate, smooth, rounded, 

 imbricate. Males with a long series of femoral pores interrupted 

 mesially ; 17 or 18 pores on each side. Tail tapering, much de- 

 pressed, flat below, with angular lateral edge ; it is covered above 

 with small pointed imbricate scales, which are enlarged and raised 

 on the sides, forming a strong denticulation, and with six or eight 

 series of spine-like tubercles forming rings ; a median series of 

 regular transversely dilated plates beneath. Upper parts light 

 brown, marbled or cross-barred w ith bro\^ n ; a dark brown streak-, 

 white-edged above, on the side of the head, passing through the 

 eye ; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 3'2 inches ; tail 3. 



Hah. Ceylon, Malay Peninsula. 



93. Hemidactylus leschenaultii. 



riemidactylus leschenaultii, Bum. ^- Bibr. Erp. Gen. iii, p. o64; 



Giinth. ^liept. B. I. p. 109; Theob. Cat. p. 77 ; Boiileng. Cat. Liz. 



i, p. 13G. 

 Hemidactylus coctfei, part., Giinth. I. c. p. 100. 

 Hemidactylus kelaartii, Theob. Cat. Kept. A&. Soc. Mus. p. 29. 

 Hemidactylus mavmoratus, Blanf. J. A, S. B. xxxix, 1870, pt. 2, 



p. o63, pi. xvi, figs. 1-3. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, Ig to 1|- the diameter of the orbit; forehead concave, the 

 su])raorbital ridges prominent in full-grown specimens ; ear-opening 

 rather large, oxa], vertical. Body and limbs moderate. A slight 

 fold of the skin on the side of the belly, from axilla to groin. 

 Digits free, strongly dilated, iinier well developed ; 6 or 7 (rarely 

 5) lamelho under the inner digits, 9 to 11 under the median. 

 Head covered with minute granules posteriorly, with larger ones 

 anteriorly ; rostral four-sided, not twice as broad as deep, with 

 median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, three 

 nasals, and generally the first labial ; 10 to 12 upper and 8 

 or 9 lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal ; two 

 pairs of chin-shields, the inner the larger aud in contact behind the 

 mental. Upper surface of body covered with small granules, uni- 

 form or intermixed with more or less numerous scattered round 

 tubercles. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male 

 with a series of femoral pores interrupted on the praeanal region ; 

 12 to 10 pores on each side. Tail depressed, flat below, covered 

 above with small smooth scales and six longitudiual series of 

 conical tubercles ; beneath with a median series of transversely 

 dilated plates. Grey above, with darker markings, forming undu- 



