10. GXMNODACTTLTJS. 39 



cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Males with three or four praeanal pores, 

 Tail cylindrical, tapering, rather swollen, covered with roundish 

 smooth scales, which are smaU and subimhricate superiorly, much 

 larger and strongly imbricate inferiorly. Brown above, with small 

 whitish spots ; lower surfaces light brown. 



Total length 115 millim. 



Head 19 



Width of head 13 



Body 43 „ 



Fore limb 22 „ 



Hind limb 29 



Tail 53 „ 



Ceylon. 



a. S. Ceylon. (Type.) 



b-d. c?5> Ceylon. (J^y^Qs oi Geckoella punctata.) 



^-ff- 6 2 . Ceylon. 



21. Gymnodactylus axnoimi. 



Gymnodactylus arnouxii, A. Dum. Cat. M4th. Rept. p. 44, and Arch. 

 Mus. viii. p. 479, pi. xviii. fig. 5. 



In habit similar to G. pelagicus. Sixteen longitudinal very 

 regular series of round, convex, smooth tubercles. Abdominal scales 

 small, smooth. Tail with uniform small smooth scales, forming 

 rings. Nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and 

 several nasals, the antero-superior of which is enlarged ; eight upper 

 and seven lower labials ; mental very large, subtriangular, extending 

 beyond the labials ; a small chin-shield on each side of the mental. 

 Brown, lighter beneath ; eight transverse dark bands between the 

 occiput and the base of the tail. 



Head and body 44 millim., tail 41 millim. 



New Zealand. 



22. Gymnodactylus geckoides. 



Cubinia darwinii, Oraij, Cat. p. 274. 

 Gymnodactylus geckoides, Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras. p. 17, 



pi. xviii. fig. 1. 

 Cyrtodactylus spixii, Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 52. 

 Gonyodactylus (Dasyderma) spinulosus, Fitziny. Syst. Rept. p. 92. 

 Gymnodactylus girardi, Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 15, pi. ii. fig. 3, 



and Sitzh. Ak. Wien, Ixii. i. 1870, p. 344. 



Appearance very similar to that of G. pelagicus. The tubercles 

 form fourteen very regular longitudinal series on the back ; these 

 tubercles are very close together in each series ; they are small, 

 roundish, and keeled, not ribbed. The ventral scales are very large, 

 cycloid and strongly imbricate, smooth, in sixteen longitudinal 

 series. Otherwise as in G. pelagicus. Brown above, with darker 



