138 GBCKOirtD^. 



with small granules, among which some larger ones are sometimes 

 scattered on the sides. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, im- 

 bricate. Male with a short series of five or six femoral pores under 

 each thigh. Tail depressed, flat inferiorly, covered above with small 

 smooth scales and four or six longitudinal series of conical tubercles ; 

 inferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. Grey 

 above, uniform or with indistinct darker marblings ; lower surfaces 

 white. 



Total length 157 millim. 



Head 20 „ 



Width of head 16 „ 



Body 56 „ 



Fore limb 28 „ 



Hind limb 34 „ 



Tail 81 „ 



India ; Malay peninsula. 



a. S • India. (Type of SoUalia sublcevis.) 



h, e-d. $ & hgr. India. 



e-f. S $ • India. W. Masters, Esq. [P.l 



g-h. $ . Patna. W. Masters, Esq. [P.J. 



i. 2 . Calcutta. Dr. Anderso:i. (One of the types 



of Hemidactylus hengalensis.) 



k. $ . EUore. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



I 5 . Bombay. Dr. Leith [P.]. 



m. c? . Pinang. Dr. Cantor. 



25. Hemidactylus gigantens. 



Hemidactylus giganteus, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. 1872, 



p. 99, pi. ii. fig. 2 ; Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 636. 

 coctsei, part., Giinth. Ann. Mag. N. H. (4) ix. 1872, p. 86. 



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

 ing, once and a half the diameter of the orbit ; forehead concave ; 

 ear-opening rather large, suboval, vertical. Body and limbs stout. 

 Digits free, inner weU developed, strongly dilated, with straight 

 transverse lamellae inferiorly ; latter, eleven or twelve under the 

 inner digits, thirteen to fifteen under the median digits. Upper 

 surfaces covered with uniform small granular scales, somewhat 

 larger on the snout, smallest on the hinder parfof the head. Ros- 

 tral quadrangular, not quite twice as broad as high ; nostril pierced 

 between the rostral and three nasals ; twelve to fifteen upper and 

 eleven to thirteen lower labials; mental large, pentagonal; two 

 pairs of chin-shields, inner largest. Abdominal scales rather smaU, 

 cycloid, imbricate. Male with a series of femoral pores inter- 

 rupted medially ; nineteen to twenty-two pores on each side. Tail 

 without large tubercles. OUve-grey above, with irregular dark, pale- 

 edged marks in imperfect circles, inclined to form, or forming, four or 

 five transverse undiilating bands on the body ; below uniform white. 



