23. HEMIDACTTLXTS. 117 



Dorsal tubercles small, round, convex ; 



tail cylindrical 9. fasciatus, p. 124. 



2. Tail depressed, flat inferiorly, with sharp denticulated 

 lateral edge. 



Back with enlarged trihedral tubercles . . 21. depressus, p. 134. 

 Back uniformly granular; digits very 



slightly webbed 30. gamoti, p. 141. 



Back granular, some of the granules 



slightly enlarged; digits one third 



webbed 31. richardsonii, p. 143. 



B. A much-developed cutaneous expansion from axilla to 

 groin. 



Digits nearly half-webbed 32. platyurus, p. 143. 



1. Hemidactylns homoeolepis. 



Hemidactylus (Liurus) homoeolepis, Blanford, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, 

 p. 464. pi. xlii. fig. 2. 



Snout longer than the distance between the eye and the ear- 

 opening, once and one third the diameter of the orbit; forehead 

 scarcely concave; ear-opening small, oval, oblique. Body and 

 limbs moderate. Digits moderately dilated, free, with rather short 

 distal joints ; six lamellae under the thumb, eight under the fourth 

 finger, five under the inner toe, and nine or ten under the fourth 

 toe. Head covered with small convex granules, largest on the 

 snout ; rostral subquadrangular, not twice as broad as high, with 

 median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first 

 labial, and three nasals; nine upper and seven lower labials; 

 mental large, triangular, more than twice as long as the adjacent 

 labials ; four chin-shields, median pair largest and in contact behind 

 the mental. Back covered with flat, subimbricate, smooth round 

 scales, largest on the sides. Abdominal scales small, cycloid, im- 

 bricate, scarcely larger than the dorsals. Male with four prseanal 

 pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, covered above with uniform 

 small, smooth, subimbricate, flat scales, inferiorly with a median 

 series of transversely dilated plates, commencing some distance 

 behind the vent. Grey above, spotted with darker ; a dark streak 

 passing through the eye; tail with black annuli; lower surfaces 

 dirty white. 



Total length : . , 77 millim. 



Head 10 



Width of head 6 



Body 27 



Fore limb 10-5 



Hind limb 13-5 



Tail 40 



