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lowish white, marked with small and larger black spots of various 

 shapes ; some palee-yed. These black spots occupy more than 

 one scale, generally two or three contiguous scales, and they are 

 placed without order in various directions. Chin and throat uni- 

 maculate. Tail very short, obliquely truncated and covered with 

 a large flat orbicular granular shield. 



Length 6^ inches ; circumference | inch. 



Hab. Matura, Southern Province. 



Genus Dapatnaya, n. g. 



Tail obliquely truncated, upper part and tip covered with a 

 large semi-conical granular shield. Vent-shields 1-2. 



Dapatnaya Lankadivana, n. s., nobis. 



Above dark brown, beneath paler. Scales with pale margins. 

 Head yellowish in some. Rostrum yellow. Shield of tail sloping 

 down to the lower surface. Vent-scales yellow; in some the 

 spot extends beyond the vent. 



Length from 1 to 2 feet. Thickness nearly the same through- 

 out, about 1 inch. 



Hab. Common at Trincomalie and in the Kandyan Province. 

 Found 2 or 3 feet under ground, and in ant-hills. The young 

 is of a dark olive-brown colour. 



Dapatnaya TVevelyanii, n. s., nobis. 



Black above, margin of scales pale ; white beneath, with lon- 

 gitudinal series of black spots, formed of central spots on each 

 scale ; a line of triangular white spots, with their apices directed 

 upwards, along each side. Vent white. A white line rising from 

 this spot runs over the tail, and another whitish line extends 

 forwards from the vent for about | inch. Tail short, and nearly 

 covered with a white semi-conical granular shield ; tip ridged, a 

 little produced. 



Length from 12 to 18 inches ; nearly of the same thickness 

 throughout, about 1 inch. 



Hab. Kandyan Hills, 3 or 4 feet under ground, and in the soil 

 near the roots of coffee trees and cane. 



Some of the young are of a bluish colour, others are spotted 

 on the back. 



Tribe Nyctisaura. 



Fam. GECKOTID.E. 



Genus Boltalia. 



Boltalia sublavis, Gray. 



Above dark rufous brown ; beneath sulphureous yellow, some- 



