38 GECKONID^E. 



Total length 127 millim. 



Head 20 „ 



Width of head 14 „ 



Body •. 47 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 36 „ 



Tail 60 „ 



South Canara. 



a~e, d. (S- S. Canara. Col. Beddome [C.]. 



19. Gynmodactylus oldhami. 

 Gymnodactylus oldhami, Theobald, Cat. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 81. 



Crown of head behind the eyes finely granular, the scales in front 

 being larger ; eleven upper and ten lower labials ; three pairs of 

 chin-shields. Back granular, with about thirty longitudinal rows 

 of tubercles contained between an area bounded by faint keels mar- 

 gining the belly. Enlarged praeanal and femoral scales, but no pores. 

 Colour above vinous brown ; a white semicircular line joins the 

 superciliary ridges ; a second horseshoe-shaped white line runs from 

 the gape below the ear to the opposite side, enclosing a nuchal 

 collar ; behind the collar two closely approximated white lines run 

 along the spine, becoming soon broken up into spots merely ; ou 

 the sides are more white spots, tending to form three distinct lines, 

 the lowest of which coincides with the ventral keel ; belly whitish. 



South Canara. 



According to Col. Beddome this species is identical with the 

 preceding ; but it wiU be remarked that the two descriptions by no 

 means agree, and I must therefore hold them distinct until we obtain 

 further information. 



20. Gymnodactylus triedrus, 



Gymnodactylus triedrus, Giinth. JRept. Brit. Ind. p. ] 13, 

 Geckoella punctata, Gray, Proc. Zool. iSoc. 1867, p. 99, pi. ix. 



Head rather large, oviform ; snout longer than the diameter of 

 the eye, slightly longer than the distance between the eye and the 

 ear-opening ; forehead concave ; ear-opening small, suboval, hori- 

 zontal. Body and limbs moderate ; digits short, cylindrical in their 

 basal, compressed in their distal portion, with well-developed 

 tubercle-like plates inferiorly. Head covered with small granules, 

 largest on the snout : rostral quadrangular, not twice as broad as 

 high; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and 

 several small scales ; ten or eleven upper and nine lower labials ; 

 mental triangular; two or three pairs of chin-shields, median 

 largest and forming a long suture behind the point of the mental. 

 Upper surface of body covered with small granules intermixed with 

 numerous small trihedral tubercles. Abdominal scales rather small, 



