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slightly concave; eyes large; ear-opening elliptical, vertical, about 

 a third as large as the eye. 



Limbs short, the hind limb barely reaching the axilla and 

 the fore limb the eye; digits rather stout ; their inferior lamellae 

 without projecting tubercles. 



Tail stout, tapering, slightly flattened above at the base. 



Lepidosis. Snout covered with small, convex, polygonal 

 scales, between two of which, with the rostral and first labial, 

 the nostril is pierced; forehead and vertex with smaller, rounded, 

 feebly keeled granules; ii upper and 9 lower labials; mental 

 broad, pointed but not produced behind; a single pair of large 

 chin-shields, which form a long suture behind the mental and are 

 followed on each side by a row of smaller enlarged scales that 

 decrease in size from before backwards. Dorsal surface of body 

 covered with granules similar to those on vertex but larger, among 

 which are scattered irregularly still larger but by no means prom- 

 inent keeled tubercles; tail verticilate, clothed above in imbri- 

 cating, convex, leaf-shaped scales, some of which project from the 

 surface and are larger than others, below with smaller imbrica- 

 ting scales of similar form; throat covered with small rounded 

 granules, chest and bell}^ with smooth imbricating scales rather 

 larger than the granules on the back ; about 27 scales across mid- 

 belly. 



Colouration. Dorsal surface pale grey with numerous scripti- 

 form transverse black marks, which are regularly interrupted 

 in. the mid-line of the back and take on the tail and digits the 

 form of more or less distinct cross-bars ; ventral surface pale, each 

 scale on the belly bearing several microscopic black dots. 



Type No. 17 195, Rept. Ind. Mas. 



Habitat. Dharampur, Simla dist., Western Himalayas; 

 alt- ca. 4500 ft. The only specimen (a female) of this very distinct 

 species as yet obtained was found under a stone by one of the 

 Museum collectors. 



Gehyra beebei, sp. nov. 

 (Plate XV, fig. 2. ) 



Habit stout, depressed; a distinct but not at all web-like fold 

 of skin along each side of the body. 



Head ovate, flattened; snout rounded, a little longer than 

 the distance between the eye and the ear ; ear-opening nearly 

 circular, about half as large as eye; forehead flat. 



Limbs short and flattened, with a distinct fold of skin 

 extending along their posterior margins and in the case of the 

 hind limbs forming a regular web ; digits cylindrical at the base 

 and widly expanded distally ; digital web absent from fore feet, 

 vestigial on hind feet; subdigital lamellae, with the exception of 

 the terminal lamella, entirely divided by a longitudinal groove and 

 separated at the proximal end of the digital expansion in each 

 case by one or more minute scales ; lamellae curved ; 8 under 



