GYMNODACTYLUS. 69 



on the snout ; occiput and temples with scattered small round 

 tubercles ; rostral subquadrangular, not twice as broad as deep, 

 with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral and 

 several small scales or granules ; 10 to 12 upper and as many 

 lower labials ; mental triangular ; one or two pairs of chin-shields, 

 the largest forming a suture behind the point of the mental ; 

 throat minutely granulate. Body and limbs covered above with 

 small granules intermixed with numerous small roundish, feebly 

 keeled, subtrihedral tubercles ; a slight fold from axilla to groin ; 

 ventral scales small (about 35 across the middle of the belly), 

 cycloid, imbricate. Male without pubic groove or femoral pores, 

 with a series of 10 to 13 prseanal pores forming a very open 

 angle. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered above with small flat 

 granules, with a few scattered slightly enlarged tubercles, below 

 with small flat scales. Brown above, with darker angular spots, 

 forming more or less regular series along the back ; a dark streak 

 on the side of the head, passing through the eye ; tail with dark 

 annuli ; lower surfaces brownish. 



Prom snout to vent 3 inches ; tail 3'9. 



Hob. Khasi Hills, S. of Assam. 



65. Gymnodactylus rubidus. 



Puellula rubida, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxix, 1860, p. 109 j Giinth. Hept 



B. I. p. 118. 



Gecko tigris, Tytler, J.A. S.B. xxxiii, 1864, p. 546. 

 Cyrtodactylus rubidus, Theob. Cat. p. 93. 

 Gymnodactylus rubidus, Bouleng. Cat. Liz. i, p. 45. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but the digits are shorter, and 

 the subdigital lamella? much smaller, considerably narrower than 

 the digits. A longitudinal groove on the pubic region, containing 

 a few prseanal pores in the male. 



Hob. Andaman Islands. 



66. Gymnodactylus pulchellus. 



Cyrtodactylus pulchellus, Gray, Zool. Journ. iii, 1828, p. 224 ; id. 



III. Ind. Zool. ii. pi. Ixxiv. 

 Gymnodactylus pulchellus, Giinth. Hept. B. I. p. 113 ; Bouleng. Cat. 



Liz. i, p. 46. 



Head large, much depressed, oviform : snout longer than the 

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

 forehead and loreal region concave ; ear-opening suboval, vertical, 

 slightly oblique, one third to two fifths the diameter of the eye. 

 Body and limbs rather elongate. Digits strong, slightly depressed 

 at the base, strongly compressed in the remaining portion ; the 

 basal phalanx with well-developed transverse plates beneath. Head 

 granular, with small round tubercles on the occipital and tem- 

 poral regions, the granules enlarged on the snout, except in the 

 frontal and loreal concavities. Eostral subquadrangular, nearly 



