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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW REPTILES AND A NEW BATRACHIAN 



FROM SIAM 



By Malcolm A. Smith, m.u.c.s., l.k.c.p., k.z.s. 



Types of all tlie species here desci-ibeil will be presented to the 

 British Museum of Natural History, London. 



Gymnodactylas intermedia', sp. nov. 



Diagnosis. Intermediate between G. consohrinns Peters, and 

 G. piilchellus (iray ; resembling tlie former in the arrangement of the 

 praeanal pores, and tlie latter in colouration. 



Desirrii'fion. Ear opening suboval, vertical or slightly oblique, 

 as hvrge as in G. palcltdlus. Head granular, with small roundecl 

 tubercles on the occipital and temporal regions ; rostral with a median 

 cleft above entering the nostril ; 10 or 11 upper and 10 or 11 lower 

 labials ; symphysial triangular ; 2 or o jiairs of chin-shields, the first 

 pair forming a long median suture. Body and limbs covered above 

 with small granules, intermixed with small, rounded, conical tubercles, 

 not perhaps so distinctl)- keeled as in G. jiulchellas, but quite as 

 large ; a lateral fold of enlarged tubercles. Ventral scales inter- 

 mediate in size between G. pulchcUus and G. consohrinus, about 40 to 45 

 in a transverse series. Male with a wide-angled series of 8 to 10 

 praeanal pores, not interrupted mesially ; enlarged scales in front 

 and behind; no pubic groove, no femcral pores, but a series of 

 7 to 10 large scales separated from the pia^anal ones by an interval 

 of about one scale. Tail above with small flat scales and rows of 

 enlarged tubercles ; below with transverse plates. 



Co/oftr ( in life ^. Hreyisli brown with five dark brown cross 

 bands bordered with pale yellow, the first band horse-shoe sliaped from 

 eye to e}'e across the nape. Below dirty white. 



Dimensions. Head and body 85, tail 110 mm. 



T II pe specimens, d and 9, from Khao Sebab, near Chantabun. 

 S. E. Siam. 



Remarl:!. Five specimens in all were obtained upon the hill, at 

 varying elevations np to 500 metres. They were caught beneath the 



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