LIZARDS. 153 



Grey, with rather darker brown spots, whitish beneath ; tem- 

 ples brown, with white and tubercular line above and below ; the 

 back with white-spotted brown bands, back with large triangular 

 tubercles, some opaque, white ; toes broadly dilated ; tail thick, 

 rounded, with rings of triangular acute spreading spines, roundish 

 beneath, subcaudal plate broad, 6-sided ; males with angular line 

 of preanal pores, 8-8. 



a. In spirits. Chin-shields 4, large, rest small, preanal pores 8-8. 



Madras. Presented by W. Elliott, Esq. 

 h. In spirits. Male ? Chin-shields 2, large, rest small, preanal 



pores 8-7, in an angular line. India. Presented by Sir Jas. 



MacGregor. 



The Spotted Hemidactyle. Hemidactylus maculatus, Dum. 

 et Bib. E. G. iii. 358. H. Sykesii, Gray, B. M. 



Back grey, black-spotted, with longitudinal series of nearly 

 3-sided large tubercles; toes broad, last joint very long; the male 

 with distinct femoral pores ; cheek-shields 4, 2 middle elongate, 

 with some smaller hinder ones ; tail thick, rounded, with rings of 

 triangular acute spreading tubercles, rounded beneath, subcaudal 

 plate broad, 6-sided, regular. 



a. In spirits. Female? India, Dukun. Presented by Col. Sykes. 

 h. Half grown, in spirits. Presented by Charles Bowring, Esq. 

 c. Half grown, in spirits. China. Presented by J. Reeves, Esq. 



H. Chinensis, Gray, B. M. 

 dj e. Young, in spirits. Bengal. Presented by Gen. Hardwicke. 



H. domesticus, Hardw. 



Brook's Hemidactylus. Hemidactylus Brookii. 



Pale, with irregular brown spots forming bands across the 

 back ; the head and nape brown-spotted ; cheek with a broad 

 streak from the nostrils to the eye, and 2 diverging streaks from 

 the back of the eye, the lower to the ear ; back with irregular lon- 

 gitudinal series of short broad ovate rather trigonal tubercles ; 

 tail with rings of triangular acute tubercles ; lower rostral short- 

 ish; chin-shields 2-2, middle largest; femoral pores in a continued 

 angular line. 



a, b. In spirits. Borneo. Presented by Capt Sir Edw. Belcher, 



C.B., R.N. 

 c, In spirits. Australia. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



The Groove-tailed Hemidactylus. Hemidactylus de- 

 pressus, Gray, Zool. Erebus and Terror, t. f. 



Tail depressed, rather broad, sides shelving, with a broad cen- 

 tral groove above and below, lower broadest; back and hinder 

 part of the thighs with rather distinct, large, oblong, triangular, 

 keeled tubercles. 



rt, b. In spirits. ? 



