13. GOU"ATODES. 



67 



Body 39 mmim. 



Fore limb 24 „ 



Hind Umb 32 „ 



Tail 62 ., 



Soutbern India. 

 a. Many specimens : 



c?,$,&yg. 



hf- cJ,$,&bgr. 

 ff. 6. 

 h. (S. 



Tinnevelly. Col. Beddome [C.]. (Types.) 



Tinnevelly. 

 Travancore. 

 S. India. 



Col. Beddome [C.l. 

 Col. Beddome [C], 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



13. Gonatodes marmoratus. (Plate VI. fig. 4.) 



Gymnodactylus marmoratus (non D. 8f B.), Beddome, Madras Journ. 



Med. Sc. 1870. 

 beddomei, Theobald, Cat. Bept. Brit. Ind. p. 88. 



Head rather elongate ; snont acuminate, longer than the distance 

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

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

 ear-opening small, vertically oval. Body moderate, limbs rather 

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

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

 than the distal, inferiorly with regular plates, that under the 

 articulation being large and discoid. Head covered with small 

 granules, largest and keeled on the snout. Eostral four-sided, 

 twice as broad as high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral and three nasals ; six to eight upper and as 

 many lower labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal, its 

 posterior angle truncate ; chin-shields very smaU. Upper surface 

 of body covered with small granules irregularly intermixed with 

 slightly larger ones ; all these tubercles with a central raised point 

 or a short keel. Abdominal scales very small, juxtaposed, convex, 

 keeled. Males with six to eight prseanal pores. Tail cylindrical, 

 tapering, covered above with uniform small feebly keeled scales, 

 inferiorly with larger smooth scales, those of the median series 

 sometimes a little enlarged. Brown, above clouded with darker 

 and lighter markings ; tail with ill-defined darker and lighter 

 annuli ; the lower lip edged with dark brown ; another dark-brown 

 streak, parallel to the latter, on each side of the throat. 



Total length 100 millim. 



Head 15 „ 



Width of head 10 „ 



Body 36 „ i 



Fore limb 28 „ 



Hind limb 28 „ 



Tail 49 „ 



Southern India. 



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