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31. Hemidactylus richardsonii. (Plate XII, fig. 3.) 

 Velemesia richardsonii, Gray, Cat. p. 156. 



Snout rounded, a little longer than the distance between the eye 

 and the ear-opening, as long as the diameter of the orbit; ear- 

 opening moderately large, vertical, oval. Body and limbs stout. 

 A fold of the skin from axilla to groin, and another bordering the 

 hind limb posteriorly. Digits one third webbed, strongly dilated, 

 inner well developed ; infradigital lamellae nearly straight, six under 

 the thumb, nine under the fourth finger, seven under the inner toe, 

 and ten under the fourth too. Upper surfaces covered with small 

 granules, largest on the snout, smallest on the occiput ; a few larger 

 granules are scattered among the dorsal ones ; abdominal scales 

 very small, cycloid, imbricate, smooth. Rostral four-sided, twice 

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

 rostral, the first labial, and three nasals ; eleven upper and nine 

 lower labials; mental broadly triangular; two chin-shields, in con- 

 tact behind the rostral. Tail depressed, flat inferiorly, with sharp 

 denticulated lateral edge, covered above with small imbricate scales 

 and transverse series of four conical tubercles, inferiorly with a 

 median series of large transversely dilated plates. Grey above, with 

 small brown markings ; a dark-brown band on each side of head and 

 body, passing through the eye. 



Total length 159 millim. 



Head 21 „ 



Width of head 18 „ 



Body 59 „ 



Fore limb 27 „ 



Hind limb 35 „ 



Tail 79 „ 



Hah. ? 



a. $ . ? Sir J. Richardson [P.]. (Type.) 



32. Hemidactylus platyurus. 



Platyurus schneiderianus, Gray, Cat. p. 157. 

 SteUio platyurus, Schneid. Amph. Fhys. ii. p. 30, and Denkschr. Ak, 



Milnch. 1811, p. 62, pi. i. fig. 3. ^ 

 Lacerta schneideriana, Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 278. 

 Gecko platyurus, Merr. Syst. Amph. p. 41. 



margmatus, Cuv. R. A. ii. p. 54. 



Hemidactylus platym-us, Wiegvi. Nova Acta Ac, Leop.-Carol. xvii. 



i. 1836, p. 288 ; Cantor, Catal. Mai. Bept. p. 24. 

 margmatus. Gray, Griff. A. K. ix. Syn. p. 51 ; Dum. 8f Bibr, 



iii. p. 370, pi. xxx. iig. 2. 

 Hoplopodion (Cosymbotus) platyurum, Fitz. Syst. Hept. p. 104. 

 Crossurus platyurus, Girard, U.S. Eaplor. Eaped., Herp. p. 281. 

 Nycteridium schneideri, Giinth. Hept. Brit. Ind. p. 111. 



himalayanum, Anders. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xl, 1871, p. 16. 



' platyurus, Stoliczka, Journ. As, Soc, Beng. xli, 1872, p. 103. 



