23. HEMIDACTTLTTS. 139 



Total length 217 miUim. 



Head 32 „ 



Width of head 26 „ 



Body 90 „ 



Fore limb . . . -, 44 „ 



Hind limb 52 „ 



Tail (reproduced) 95 „ 



India. 



a. c? . Godavery Valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



(One of the types.) 

 b,c,d.S2- Godavery VaUey. W.T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



e. c?. Malabar. Col. Beddome [C]. 



26. Hemidactylus bowringii. (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



Doryura bowringii, Grat/, Cat. p. 166. 

 Leiurus berdmorei, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxii. 1853, p. 646. 

 Doryura berdmorei, Theob. Journ. Linn. Soc. x. 1868, p. 29. 

 Hemidactylus (Doryura) berdmorei, Stoliczka, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 



xU. 1872, p. 100; Blanf. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1876, p. 637. 

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



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

 ing, once and two fifths the diameter of the orbit ; forehead slightly 

 concave ; ear-opening small, roundish. Body and limbs moderate ; 

 a slight fold of the skin along the flank. Digits free, moderately 

 dilated, inner well developed ; infradigital lamellae obliquely curved, 

 five under the thumb, seven or eight under the fourth finger, five or 

 six under the first toe, and nine or ten under the fourth toe. Upper 

 surfaces covered with uniform small granular scales, largest on the 

 snout, smallest on the occiput. Eostral four-sided, twice as broad 

 as high, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced between the 

 rostral, the first labial, and three or four nasals ; nine to eleven 

 upper and seven or eight lower labials ; mental large, triangular, 

 followed by a pair of chin-shields ; an outer pair of much smaller 

 chin-shields. Abdominal scales moderate, cycloid, imbricate. Male 

 with a series of praeanal pores, interrupted medially, composed of 

 thirteen pores on each side. Tail depressed, rounded, oval in sec- 

 tion, covered above with uniform small scales, inferiorly with a 

 median series of transversely dilated plates. Light brown above, 

 with darker spots, having sometimes a tendency to form four longi- 

 tudinal bands on the back ; frequently small whitish spots on the 

 body and limbs ; a dark streak passing through the eye ; tail above 

 with small chevron-shaped markings ; lower surfaces whitish. 



Total length 97 millim. , 



Head 12 „ ' 



Width of head 8 „ 



Body 31 „ 



