GECKO. 101 



little shorter than the adjacent labials, followed by a small median 

 chin-shield; behind the labials small irregular scales passing gradu- 

 ally into the minute granules of the throat. Dorsal scales minutely 

 granular ; abdominal scales very small, subimbricate. Five angular 

 series of praeaual pores, the two upper extending as long femoi"al 

 series ; 50 pores in the upper series, from one end to the other. 

 Tail rounded, tapering, covered with very small subquadrangular 

 juxtaposed scales arranged in verticils. Greyish above, indistinctly 

 marbled with darker ; lower surfaces dirty white, immaculate. 



From snout to vent 5 inches. 



Hah. This species was described in 1S3G from specimens said to 

 have been brought from Bengal by Alfred Duvaucol ; but it has 

 not been rediscovered since. 



106. Hoplodactylus ananiallensis. 



Gecko anamalleusis, Giinfh. P. Z. S. IS?;!, p. 220. 



Hoplodactylus anamalleusis, Bouhncj. C(if. Liz. \, p. 175, pi. xiv, fig. 2. 



Head shortly oviform ; snout a little longer than distance between 

 eye and ear-opening, Ji diameter of orbit ; forehead very slightly 

 concave ; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Body and limbs 

 moderate. Digits free, not very strongly dilated, inner well 

 developed : infradigital lamellae openly angular, 5 under the 

 inner digits, 6 or 7 under the median fingers, and 7 or 8 under 

 the median toes. Upper surfaces uniformly granular, the granules 

 scarcely larger on the snout than on the bade. Eostral four- 

 sided, more than twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced be- 

 tween rostral, first labial, and three nasals ; 9 or 10 upper and 

 7 or 8 lower labials ; mental broadly triangular or pentagonal ; 

 two pairs of larger chin-shields anteriorly, followed by smaller 

 ones passing gradually into the granules of the throat ; abdominal 

 scales cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Male with an uninterrupted 

 series of femoral pores, 20 or 21 on each side. Tail cylin- 

 drical, tapering, slightly depressed at the base, above with small 

 imbricate scales, beneath with a median series of transversely 

 dilated plates. Grey-bro\An above, spotted or marbled with 

 darker; a few scattered lighter dots; lower surfaces brownish 

 white. 



From snout to vent 1'75 inches ; tail 1*4. 



Hah. Anamallays, S. India. 



Genus GECKO, 



Laureuti, Syn. Eept. p. 43, 1768. 



Digits strongly dilated, free or webbed at the base, with undi- 

 vided lamellfe below, all but the thumb and inner toe with a very 

 short compressed distal phalanx with reti-actile claw. Head and 

 back covered with juxaposed granular scales or tubercles, belly with 



