23. HEMIC ACTTLTJS. 



137 



boidal spots on the middle of the back, or regular longitudinal bands ; 

 a dark band from the eye to the shoulder ; lower surfaces white. 



Total length 162 millim. 



Head 22 „ 



Width of head 18 „ 



Body 58 „ 



Fore limb 31 „ 



• Hind limb 37 „ 



Tail 82 „ 



India ; Ceylon ; Malay peninsula. 



a-J. c? $ . 



c. 6. 



d. c?.. 



e-A, i, h. c? $ . 

 Jr-n. S & hgi"- 

 0. Hgr. 



p. 6- 



q. Several spec, S 2 



r-t. 6 ? . 



u. (S. 



V. 6. 



Ganjam. 



Near Ellore. 



Nagpur. 



Godavery Valley. 



Madras. 



Poona. 



Anamallays. 



Malabar. 



Ceylon, 



Ceylon. 

 Pinang. 



F. Day, Esq. [P.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.J. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 

 T. C. Jerdon, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Leith [P.]. 

 Col. Beddome [C.l. 

 Col. Beddome [C.]. 



G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



W. Ferguson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Cantor. 



T. Bell, Esq. [P.]. (Type of 

 Hemidactylus beUu.) 



24. Hemidactylus coctsei. 



Boltalia sublsevis, Gi-ai/, Cat. p. 158. 

 Hemidactylus coctsei, Bum. Sr Bibr. iii. p. 365 ; Cantor, Cat. Mai. 



Rept. p. 23; Steindachn. Novara, Rept. p. 13 ; Stoliczka,Journ. As. 



Soc. Beny. xli. 1872, p. 98 ; Gilnth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 



1872, p. 86, and Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 224 ; Blanf. Proc. Zuol. 



Soc. 1876, p. 636 ; Murray, Zool. Sind, p. 359. 

 Boltalia sublaevis, Gh'ai/, Zool. Misc. p. 58. 

 Hoplopodion cocteaui, Fitzing. Syst. Rept. p. 104. 

 Hemidactylus coctsei, part., Gunth. Rept. Brit. Ind. p. 109. 

 bengalensis, Anders. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl. 1871, p. 14. 



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

 opening, once and one third to once and a. half the diameter of the 

 orbit ; forehead concave ; ear-opening rather large, oval, oblique. 

 Body and limbs moderate. Digits free, strongly dilated, inner well 

 developed, with nearly straight lamellae inferiorly ; latter nine or 

 ten (rarely eight) under the inner digits, and eleven to thirteen 

 under the median digits. Head covered with minute granules 

 posteriorly, with larger ones anteriorly ; rostral four-sided, not quite 

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

 between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; twelve to 

 fifteen upper and ten to eleven lower labials ; mental large, tri- 

 angular or pentagonal ; two or three pairs of chin-shields, median 

 largest and in contact behind the mental. Upper surfaces covered 



