66 GECKONTDiE. 



11. Gonatodes sisparensis. 



Gymnodactylus maculatus (non Steind.), Beddorm, Madras Jourin^ 



Med. Sc. 1870. 

 sisparensis, Theobald, Cat. Rept, Brit. Ind. p. 86. 



Closely allied to O. wynadensis, but the digits mueli more 

 elongate. Eight femoral pores on each side. Dorsal tubercles 

 homogeneous. Brown, with regular transverse dark bands across 

 the body and tail. From snout to vent 62 millim. 



Southern India. 



a, c?, very bad Sholakal, Sispara Ghat. Col. Beddome [C.]. (Type.) 



state. 

 h. cJ. S.W.India. Col. Beddome [0.]. 



12. Gonatodes ornatus. (Plate VI. fig. 3.) 

 Gymnodactylus ornatus, Beddome, Madras Joum. Med. Sc. 1870. 



Head rather elongate ; snout acuminate, longer than the distance 

 between the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half to once and 

 two thirds the diameter of the orbit ; forehead feebly concave ; ear- 

 opening small, vertically ova). Body moderate, limbs rather 

 slender; the hind limb reaching the shoulder or a little beyond. 

 Digits elongate, slender ; the basal part not dUated, scarcely wider 

 than the distal, inferiorly with very small plates and a large 

 discoid one under the articulatior. Snout covered with keeled 

 granxiles; hinder part of head with uniform minute granules. 

 Eostral four-sided, twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

 above ; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals ; 

 six to nine upper and seven or eight lower labials ; mental 

 large, triangular or pentagonal, its posterior angle truncate and 

 in contact with a small median chin-shield ; two pairs of larger 

 chin-shields. Upper surface of body covered with small smooth 

 granules irregularly intermixed with small round convex, some- 

 times slightly keeled, tubercles. Abdominal scales smaU, round, 

 imbricate, smooth. Males with six to nine praeanal pores forming 

 an angular line. Tail cylindrical, becoming slender in its distal 

 half, covered above with small smooth scales, in its anterior 

 portion with semiannuli of pointed keeled tubercles ; inferiorly with 

 large smooth scales, the median series being a little enlarged. 

 Brown above, with blackish and whitish markings ; head generally 

 with black and white angular lines ; generally a black and white 

 band across the neck and a white, black-edged ocellus in front of 

 the arm ; tail with complete black and white annuU ; lower sur- 

 faces brownish, the lower lip brown-edged. 



Total length 117 millim. 



Head 16 „ 



Width of head 10-5 „ 



