SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 189 



NEW AND INTERESTING LIZARDS IN COLOMBO MUSEUM. 



By N. ANNANDALE, D.SC. 

 (^Deputy Superintendent of the Itidian Museum.') 



rp^HANKS to Dr. A. Willey I have lately had an opportunity 

 -■- of examining the Lizards in the collection of the 

 Colombo Museum, the specimens in which are, without exception, 

 from Ceylon. Notes on many of them have been published in 

 Mr. A. Haly's " Report on the Collection of Reptilia and Batrachia 

 in the Colombo Museum" (1891); but several additions have 

 been made more recently, while a re-examination of some speci- 

 mens has had interesting results, the most important of which is 

 the establishment of a new genus for the reception of Nevill's 

 Euprepes halianus* Another new Skink is also described. 



GECKONID^. 



Gymnodactylus nebulosus, Bedd. 



The collection contains a half-grown specimen of this species 

 from a locality 18 miles north of Kandy (see A. Haly, Adminis- 

 tration Report, Colombo Museum, 1900). Boulenger records 

 another Ceylonese example in the British Museum ; but the 

 species, common in some parts of Southern India, must be rare in 

 Ceylon. 



Gymnodactylus frenatus, Gthr. 



An examination of the two males and two females in the 

 collection enables me to point out a peculiarity of the adult male 

 which is possibly assumed at the breeding season and is quite 

 absent in the female. The ventral surface of the base of the tail 

 is swollen in the former sex, and there are two large closely 

 adjacent papillae close behind the opening of the penis on each 

 side. 



* H. Nevill. Taprobanian, II., 1887, p. 5G ; also Boulenger, Reptiles, Fauna Brit. 

 India, 1890, p. 213. 



