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Key to the Indo-Australian species. 



A. Males with femoral and praeanal pores. 



1. Flanks and tail with spine-like tubercles I. G.kandiamis p. 23. 



2. Body covered with minute granules, intermixed with 



irregularly arranged, slightly keeled small tubercles. 2. G. affinis p. 24. 



B. No femoral or praeanal pores. 



1. Back with uniform small granules; snout short and 



pointed 3. G. timorensis p. 25- 



2. Back with small granules intermixed with keeled 



tubercles; snout long and broad 4. G. kendalli p. 25. 



i. Gonatodes kandianus (Kelaart). 



Gymnodactylus kandianus, Kelaart, Prodr. Fauna Zeyl. 1855, p. 186. 

 Gonatodes kandianus^ Boulenger, Cat. Liz. I 1885, p. 68 (s. syn.). 



Head long; snout somewhat pointed, longer than the dis- 

 tance between the eye and the ear-opening, one time and a half 

 the diameter of the orbit; 

 forehead not concave; ear- 

 opening small, oval, vertical. 

 Head covered with small 

 granules, those on the snout 

 oval, keeled. Rostral large, 

 twice as broad as high, with Fig. 13. Gonatodes kandianus (Kel.) X 5- 

 median emargination, in 



which a small azygous shield, a cleft above; nostril bordered 

 by the rostral and three enlarged scales. 

 Seven or eight upper and as many lower 

 labials; mental large, triangular, rounded 

 posteriorly; many small chin-shields passing 

 gradually into the feebly keeled, gular gra- 

 nules. Body slender, covered above with 

 small keeled granules, intermixed with small 

 keeled tubercles; flanks with small, widely 

 separated, spine-like tubercles. Ventral scales 

 cycloid, imbricate, keeled or smooth. Male 

 with 2 4 praeanal and on each thigh 3 5 

 Fig. 14. Gonatodes femoral pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, 

 u^ (Kel.). Fore covere d above with small keeled scales and 

 rows of spine-like tubercles, 6 in a row, below 

 with larger keeled scales. Limbs long, covered with keeled 

 scales, the hind limb reaching the axilla or the shoulder; digits 



