344 Records of the Indian Museum. [ Vox. axes 
nity to note that I have found in the old collection of the Indian 
Museum a number of young specimens from Allahabad and the 
River Hughli. There is no specimen of this species in the Nagpur 
Museum, though it occurs in the Central Provinces 
Gonatodes bireticulatus, sp. nov. 
(Plate xxxiii, figs. 3, 3a.) 
Head small, ovate, moderately convex above; snout obtusely 
pointed, declivous, a little longer than the distance between the 
eye and ear-opening and more than twice as long as the eye; fore- 
head grooved; ear-opening moderate, oval; 7 upper and 8 lower 
labials. 
Fic. 3.—Gonatodes bireticulatus, sp. nov. 
A. Snout in lateral view, X 3. B. Lower surface of head, X 3. 
C. Lower surface of fifth toe, x 8. 
Body and limbs moderate, the hind limb reaching the axilla; 
digits slender, basal joints not dilated and without transverse 
plates; five relatively large plates below the first articulation. 
Dorsal surface covered with conical keeled tubercles, which vary 
considerably in size, and are much smaller on the head than on the 
body; throat covered with similar tubercles; mental moderate in 
size, subtruncate posteriorly and followed by two small flattened 
scales placed transversely ; several enlarged scales, which decrease 
in size from before backwards, on either side below the labials. 
Ventral scales small, leaf-shaped imbricate. Male with 7 femoral 
pores on each side. Tazl cylindrical, tapering, covered above 
with small, oval, sub-imbricate, almost smooth scales, and below 
