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Gymnodactylus consobrinoides, Annandale. 

 (Plate xvi, fig. i). 



'J-ouni. As. Soc. Bengal (n. s.) I, p. 82 (1905). 



I have to thank the authorities of the Amsterdam Museum 

 for giving me an opportunity of comparing the type of G. 

 consohrinoides with an adult specimen of G. consobrinus, Peters. 

 They are not so closely related as I thought ; I take this oppor- 

 tunity to redescribe my own species. 



H abit slender , cylindrical; limbs moderate, hind limbs reach- 

 ing axilla, forelimb anterior border of eye; tail slender, cylindri- 

 cal, tapering. 



Head narrow and elongate, moderately flat, forehead not 

 concave; snout slightly convex above, rounded at tip, slightly 

 longer than distance between eye and ear ; ear-openings minute. 



Lepidosis. — Snout covered with rounded granules of some- 

 what unequal size, larger than those on the back of the head; 

 latter mixed with small round keeled tubercles ; dorsal lepidosis 

 consisting of granules like those on the snout mixed with numer- 

 ous round keeled tubercles of moderate size; no row of enlarged 

 tubercles or fold of skin separating side from belly ; tail covered 

 with smooth imbricate scales above, with well-developed trans- 

 verse plates below ; scales on the throat granular, smooth; those 

 on the belly smooth, imbricate ; about 20 across mid-belly ; rostral 

 quadrangular, cleft, with several somewhat irregular enlarged 

 scales behind it ; nostril between rostral and several small scales ; 

 10 upper, 9 lower labials; mental moderate, not produced back- 

 wards ; a single pair of very large chin-shields forming a long suture 

 behind mental and followed by several smaller enlarged scales in 

 two rows on each side. 



Male pores. — No femoral pores ; an uninterrupted divergent 

 series of 5 praeanal pores followed on the thighs by a row of 

 enlarged scales which may bear impressions but are not pierced ; 

 no public groove. 



Digits short and rather stout; subdigital lamellae by no 

 means strongly developed. 



Colouration. — Dorsal surface dull brown with several dark 

 insulariform spots on the head, a U-shaped dark bar extending 

 from eye to eye and 7 dark bars, much narrower than the inter- 

 spaces and only reaching a short distance down the sides, on the 

 back ; the first of these bars consisting of two convergent wedge- 

 shaped marks ; tail barred ; dorsal surface pale brown. 



Measurements : — 



" no mm. 



