2. ETTBLEPHARIS. 231 



Synopsis of the Species. 



I. Back with enlarged tubercles. 



Tubercles larger than the interspaces be- 

 tween them 1- hardwickii, p. 231. 



Tubercles not larger than the interspaces 

 between them ; mental pentagonal, much 

 broader than long, followed by a pair of 

 chin-shields 2. mamlarius, p. 232. 



Tubercles not larger than the interspaces 

 between them ; mental subquadrangular, 

 as long as broad ; no chin- shields .... 3. dovii, p. 233. 



II. Back uniformly granular. 



Snout as long as the distance between the ^ 



orbit and the ear-opening ; eight labials 



to below the centre of the eye 4. variegatus, p. 233. 



Snout longer than the distance between the 



orbit and the ear-opening ; six labials to 



below the centre of the eye 5. fasciatus, p. 234. 



1. Eublepharis hardwickii. 



Eublepharis hardwickii, Gray, Cat. p. 170. 

 Eublepharis hardwickii, G7-ay, II. cc. and III. Ind. Zool. ; Gilnth. I. c. 



p. 119, pL xi. fig. B. 

 Gymnodactylus lunatus, Blyth, in Cantor, Cat. Mal. Rept. p. 27, and 



Journ. As. Sac. Beng. xxiii. 1854, p. 210. 



Body stout ; limbs rather short ; digits short. Snout as long as 

 the distance between the orbit and the ear-opening ; latter large, 

 suboval, vertical. Head covered with irregular polygonal scales, 

 intermixed with enlarged tubercles on the temples and occiput ; 

 rostral subpentagonal, twice as broad as high, with median cleft 

 above ; three or four internasals ; about ten upper and as many 

 lower labials ; mental broadly pentagonal, in contact with two 

 enlarged chin-shields, surrounded by irregular smaller ones passing 

 gradually into the flat granules of the gular region. Body covered 

 above with small, irregular, flat scales, intermixed with numerous 

 roundish, subcorneal tubercles ; these tubercles larger than the inter- 

 spaces between them. Male with fourteen to eighteen praeanal pores. 

 Tail swollen, rounded, tapering at the end, circularly plaited, above 

 with small flat scales and rows of enlarged subconical tubercles, 

 inferiorly with larger flat scales arranged regularly. Above reddish 

 brown and cream-coloured ; the former colour occcupies the head 

 and forms two broad bands across the back, the anterior broadest, 

 and three round the tail ; the latter borders the upper lip and 

 extends as a horseshoe-shaped band to the other side, passing across 

 the neck, and occupies the interspace between the dorsal and caudal 

 brown bands, which are by far the widest ; lower surfaces white. 



