23. HEMIDACTTLTTS. 135 



diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening oblique, 

 nearly half the diameter of the eye. Body and limbs moderate. 

 The skin forms a fold on each side of the belly, from axilla to groin. 

 Digits distinctly webbed pt the base, moderately dilated, inner well 

 developed, with curved, scarcely oblique lamellae ; latter, seven (or 

 six) under the inner digits, nine or ten under the median fingers, 

 ten or eleven under the median toes. Snout covered with granular 

 scales, largest in front of the orbits ; hinder part of head with 

 minute granules intermixed with round tubercles ; rostral sub- 

 quadrangular, not twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

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

 three or four nasals ; ten to twelve upper and eight to ten lower 

 labials ; mental large, triangular or pentagonal, twice as long as the 

 adjacent labials ; four large chin -shields, median pair largest, forming 

 a long suture behind the point of the mental. Tipper surface of 

 body covered with small flat granules intermixed with trihedral 

 tubercles, forming sixteen to twenty very irregular longitudinal 

 series ; the largest tubercles measure about one fourth the diameter 

 of the eye. Abdominal scales moderate, smooth, rounded, imbricate. 

 Males with a long series of femoral pores interrupted medially ; 

 seventeen or eighteen pores on each side. Tail tapering, much de- 

 pressed, flat inferiorly, with angular lateral edge ; it is covered above 

 with small pointed imbricated scales, which are enlarged and raised 

 on the sides, forming a strong dentieulation, and six or eight series 

 of spine-like tubercles forming rings ; a median series of regular 

 transversely dilated plates inferiorly. Upper parts light brown, 

 marbled or cross-barred with brown ; a dark brown, above white- 

 edged streak on the side of the head, passing through the eye ; 

 lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 156 millim. 



Head 22 



Width of head 17 



Body ■. 58 



Fore limb 26 



Hind limb 35 



Tail 76 



Ceylon ; Malayan peninsula. 



«,6. c?. ? (Types.) 



e,d,e. c?,$,&yg. Ceylon. 



/. $ , bad state. Ceylon. C. R. Buller, Esq. [P.], 



g. $ . Singapore. (Type of Nubilia argentii.) 



22. Hemidactylns knslimorensis. 



Hemidactylus kushmorensis, Murray, Ann. Mag. N. H. (5) xiv. 1884, 

 p. 109. 



Seven lamellge under the middle toe. Crown of the head 

 interspersed with numerous round tubercles ; nostril between the 



