23. HEMTDACTTLirS. 141 



28. Hemidactylus blanfordii. 



Head mucli depressed; snout rather pointed, longer than the 

 distance between the eye and the ear-opening, once and a half the 

 diameter of the orbit ; forehead slightly concave ; ear-opening small, 

 suboval. Body and limbs moderate ; a very slight fold of the skin 

 along the flanks. Digits free, moderately dilated, inner well deve- 

 loped ; infradigital lamellae obliquely curved, six under the thumb 

 and inner toe, ten under the fourth finger, and eleven under the 

 fourth toe. Upper surfaces covered with uniform minute granules. 

 Eostral four-sided, with median cleft above ; nostril pierced be- 

 tween the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; thirteen upper 

 and eleven lower labials ; mental large, triangular, followed by two 

 pairs of chin-shields, one behind the other, the anterior pair forming 

 a suture, the second pair separated. Abdominal scales moderate, 

 cycloid, imbricate. Tail depressed, fiat inferiorly, with sharpish 

 denticulated lateral edge, covered above with uniform granules, 

 inferiorly with a median series of transversely dilated plates. 

 Keddish brown above, with small round yellowish spots ; lower 

 surfaces whitish. 



Total length 72 millim. 



Head 11 „ 



Width of head 6-5 „ 



Body 24 „ 



Fore limb 12 „ 



Hind limb 15 „ 



Tail 37 „ 



Himalayas. 

 a. $ Darjeeling. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



29. Hemidactylus peruvianns. 



Hemidactylus peruvianus, Gray, Cat. p. 156. 

 Hemidactylus peruvianus, Wiegm. Nova Acta Ac. Leop.- Carol, xvii. 



i. 1836, p. 240; Dum. 8f Bihr. iii. p. 369. 

 Hoplopodion (Microdactylus) peruvianum, Fitz. Syst. Hept. p. 104. 



Body covered above with uniform granules. Digits free, slightly 

 dilated. Two pairs of chin-shields, one behind the other, the 

 anterior elongate-pentagonal, the posterior smaller and roundish. 

 Tail tapering, depressed, the lateral edges obtusely angular, with a 

 denticulation of spine-like scales. Grey above, marbled with 

 blackish, witn indistinct whitish round spots ; white inferiorly. 



Tacna, Peru. 



30. Hemidactylus garnotii 



Doryura garnotii, Gi'ay, Cat. p. 157. 

 Hemidactylus garnotii, Dum. Sr Bibr. iii. p. 368 ; Bouleng. Proc. Zool 



Soc. 1883, p. 118, pi. xxii. fig. 1. 

 Hoplopodion (Onychopus) garnotii, Fitz, Syst. Bept. p. 104. 



