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roundish. Head covered with small granules, largest on the snout. 

 Rostral quadrangular, nearly twice as broad as high, with 

 median cleft above ; nostril bordered by the rostral, the first 



Fig. 17. Hemidactylus frenatus D. B. 



labial and three nasals. Ten to twelve upper and eight or 

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

 or three pair of chin-shields, the median in contact behind 

 the mental. Body granular with more or less numerous, some- 

 times absent, irregularly scattered, round, convex tubercles, 

 which are smaller than the ear-open- 

 ing. Ventral scales cycloid, imbricate. 

 Male with an uninterrupted series of 

 28 — 36 femoral pores. Tail rounded, 

 feebly depressed, covered above with 

 very small smooth scales and 6 long- 

 itudinal series of keeled tubercles, 



below with a median series of trans- Fig. 18. Hemidactylus frenatus 



versely dilated plates. Limbs mode- ^- ^' ^""^^ ^'"^^ X 4- 



rate; digits dilated, free (fig, 18), inner with sessile claw; 3 or 



