LIZARDS. 155 



The Wandering Hemidactvle. Hemidactylus mercatorius, 

 Gray, Z. 31. 58. 



Pale brown ; head with 2, back with 3, interrupted angular 

 black cross bands ; tail with irregular black cross bands ; beneath 

 yellowish white ; back with small roundish trihedral tubercular 

 scales ; male femoral pores in a continued sul)ang-ular series, each 

 in the front edge of a scale, female with an angular continued se- 

 ries of preanal pores. 



a. In spirits. Madagascar. Presented by J. E. Gray, Esq. 



b. In spirits. Brazils. Presented by Lord Stuart de Rothsay. 



The Streaked Hemidactyle. Hemidactylus frenatus, 

 Schlegel, Mus. Leyd. Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 366. H. lateralis, 

 Gray, B. 31. H. quinquelineatus. Gray, B. 31. 



Grey ; sides with small granuliform tubercles ; thumb short ; 

 chin-shields 4 ; tail rounded, with cross rows of small spines ; fe- 

 moral and preanal pores in a continued line. 



a. In spirits. ? 



b, c. In spirits. Ceylon. 



Leschenault's Hemidactyle. Hemidactylus Leschenaultii, 

 Dum. et Bib. E. G. iii. 364. Stellio Argyropus, Tilesius, 3Iem. 

 Petersb. vii. 334, ^ 11 ? 



Back with small scattered conical tubercles in the middle ; 

 the edge of the orbits prominent and prolonged on the muzzle ; 

 toes moderate; tail very slightly depressed; males with 26 femoral 

 pores, in 2 lines, which are pierced in the front edge of the scales. 



Inliab. Ceylon. Mus. Paris. 



The Streaked Cheeked Hemidactyle. Hemidactylus 

 vittatus. 



Grey, with 2 black streaks on each cheek, and a broad black 

 streak on each side of the neck and shoulders ; lips brown-spotted; 

 back granular, with 2 rows of distant rounder tubercles on each 

 side ; tail with rings of 6 distant small triangular acute tubercles. 



a, b. In spirits. Borneo. Presented by Capt. Sir Edward Bel- 

 cher, C.B., R.N. 



** Tail squarish, with rings of spinose tubercles. Back equally 



granular. 



Bell's Hemidactyle. Hemidactylus Bellii. 



Pale olive, blackish marbled, with a streak from the back of 

 the eyes to the ear ; beneath pale ; tail nearly square, the upper 

 series of spines on each side nearer together than the lower ; fe- 

 moral pores interrupted in the middle ; chin-shields 4, the 2 cen- 

 tral long, rhombic, rather narrower behind, the hinder triangular, 

 rounded at the hinder angle. 



a. In spirits. ? Presented by Thomas Bell, Esq. 



