igiS'] N- ANNANDAI.E : Indian Geckos. 319 



Gymnodactylus himalayicus, Annandale. 



Joiii-n. As. Soc. Bengal (n. s.) II, p. 287 (1906) ; Rec. Ind. Miis. I, pi. iv, 

 fig. I (1907). 



Closely related as this species is to G. khasiensis, it totally 

 lacks either a row of enlarged tubercles or a fold of skin separating 

 the ventral from the lateral regions on the side. The type, which 

 still remains unique, is in excellent condition. It was caught on 

 the floor of a room of one of the hotels in a well-known Himalayan 

 hill-station. I reprint the original description. 



Description. — Head large, rather narrow, depressed, ovoid ; 

 snout slightly longer than orbit, obtusely pointed ; forehead 

 concave. Habit slender ; digits compressed throughout ; tail 

 slightly longer than head and body, rounded, tapering. Dorsal 

 surface of head and body granular, with numerous small conical 

 tubercles on the body, base of head and hind limbs ; on the back 

 these tubercles tend to be arranged in 16 irregular lines : they are 

 very much smaller than the ear-opening. Ventral scales small, 

 leaf-shaped, imbricate; about 35 across middle of belly. No 

 lateral fold or enlarged scales in its place Rostal grooved ; 

 nostril between rostal, first labial and several small scales; ten 

 upper and ten lower labials. Ear-opening ovoid , slanting, one- 

 third as large as eye. Subdigital lamellae moderate, larger on 

 proximal than on distal joints. Eleven praeanal pores arranged 

 in a continuous, wide, V-shaped series; the scales posterior to 

 them, between the arms of the V, enlarged ; three postanal 

 papillae (in the male) on either side ; base of tail swollen below ; 

 no public groove; no femoral pores. Colouration as in G. 

 marnioratits. 



Measurements : — ■ 



Total length 

 Head and bod}' 

 Tail 



Hind limb 

 Fore limb 

 Breadth of head 



157 16 (Type). Kurseong, Darjiling dist. Dr 



(5,000 ft. I. 



Gymnodactylus khasiensis (Jerdon). 



Boulenger, Fauna, p. 68 ; Annandale, Rec. hid. Miis. VIII, p. 39 (1912). 



This species is found in the hills of north-eastern Burma and 

 in those of Assam both north and south of the Brahmaputra. It 

 thus occurs in the extreme east of the Himalayan foot-hills. 



Specimens: — 



O197, 6199 (Type;. Khasi Hills, Assam. Dr. Jerdon. 



5818-9, 5835-3 ] Cherrapunji, Khasi Lieut. Bourna 



5831- 5837-8 J Hills. 



