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APPENDIX. 

 DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW INDIAN LIZARDS. 



As a matter of convenience I take this opportunity to describe 

 three lizards, one of which is of particular interest in connection 

 with the Abor fauna in that it comes from the Bengal frontier of 

 Bhutan. The other two are from the Bombay Presidency and 

 vSylhet respectively. 



Hemidactylus platyceps, sp. nov. 



H abit slender ; depressed; size small. 



Head narrowly ovoid, strongly depressed and very shallow; 

 snout bluntly pointed, about as long as distance between eye and 

 ear; eye small; ear-opening minute, longitudinally oval. Rostral 

 much more than twice as broad as deep, feebly cleft above; 

 nostril between rostral, first labial and three small scales; 9 upper, 

 7 lower labials; snout covered with strongly keeled granules, rest 

 of head with smaller and slightly irregular convex granules; two 

 pairs of chin-shields, followed on each side by several irregular 

 scales; first pair of chin-shields forming a long suture behind 

 mental; throat-scales small, smooth, imbricate. 



Scales. — Back covered with small convex granules of some- 

 what unequal size, with 12 longitudinal rows of much larger 

 strongly keeled tubercles; these much larger than ear-opening; 

 dorsal surface of limbs covered with unequal keeled granules ; 

 ventral scales rather large, smooth, imbricate; tail covered above 

 and below with smooth imbricate scales which are a little larger 

 on the ventral than on the dorsal surface. 



Limbs short, the adpressed hind limb barely reaching the 

 axilla. Fingers and toes short, free; 8 lamellae under 4th, 4 under 

 inner toe. Distal joint of inner digit extremely short. 



Tail short, somewhat depressed as a whole, triangular in 

 vertical section. 



Colouration. — Dorsal surface dull olivaceous, with a dark 

 longitudinal line extending on either side from the tip of the snout 

 above the eye to the base of the tail ; this line followed below by 

 a pale one and then by a second dark one ; two very narrow dark 

 lines separated by a pale interspace below the second broader one 

 on the sides of the belly; tail dark olivaceous; ventral surface 

 yellowish green, suffused with dark olivaceous on the tail. 



Total length . . . . . . 70 mm. 



Length of head and body . 

 Length of tail . . 

 Length of head 

 Length of fore limb 

 Length of hind limb 



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