68 GECKONID^E. 



much larger and strongly imbricate beneath. Brown above with 

 small whitish spots ; lower surfaces light brown. 



From snout to vent 2'4 inches; tail 2-1. 



Hcib. Ceylon. 



63. Gymnodactylus frenatns. 



Gymnodactylus frenatns, Giinth. Rcpt. B. I. p. 113, pi. xii, fig. D ; 

 Theob. Cat. p. 80 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 42. 



Head large, depressed, oviform ; snout longer than the orbit, 

 the diameter of which equals the distance from orbit to ear-opening ; 

 forehead concave ; ear-opening suboval, oblique, nearly one third 

 the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs rather elongate. Digits 

 strong, distinctly depressed at the base, strongly compressed in the 

 remaining portion ; the basal phalanx with well-developed trans- 

 verse plates beneath. Head granular, the granules largest on the 

 snout ; a few scattered round tubercles on the temples ; rostral 

 subquadrangular, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above, 

 and bordering on the nostril considerably ; latter pierced between 

 the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; 10 to 12 upper and 

 9 or 10 lower labials ; mental broadly triangular ; a pair of chin- 

 shields, forming a suture behind the mental ; a few small chin- 

 shields on each side of the median pair ; gular scales minutely 

 granular. Body covered above with flat granules intermixed with 

 irregularly scattered small round smooth tubercles. A slight fold 

 from axilla to groin. Abdominal scales rather small, cycloid, 

 imbricate. Males with two pairs of praanal pores. Tail cylindrical, 

 tapering, covered above with small flat subquadrangular scales, 

 beneath with a median series of large transverse plates. Light 

 pinkish brown above, with five pairs of angular dark-brown spots 

 confluent into cross bands, the anterior, on the nape, uniting 

 with a dark-brown band extending to the eye, and continued, more 

 or less interruptedly, along the side of the body ; tail with dark- 

 brown annuli ; lower surfaces whitish. 



From snout to vent 3'2 inches ; tail 4'3. 



Hob. Ceylon. 



64. Gymnodactylus khasiensis. 



Pentadactylus ? khasiensis, Jerdon, P. A. S. B. 1870, p. 75. 

 Gymnodactylus khasiensis, Theob. Cat. p. 84 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, 

 p. 44. 



Head large, ir.uch depressed, oviform ; snout longer than the 

 diameter of the orbit, which equals its distance from the ear- 

 opening ; forehead and loreal region concave ; ear-opening sub- 

 oval, about one third the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs 

 rather elongate. Digits rather elongate, slightly depressed at the 

 base, strongly compressed in the remaining portion; subdigital 

 lamellae well-developed, the distal one of the basal portion largest 

 and nearly as long as broad. Head granular, the granules largest 



