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circular. Two large plates behind the rostral, with a moderate- 

 sized azygos shield wedged into the hinder margin of their suture. 



General colour dark brown, paler on the head. Six cross bands, 

 formed by about six white spots, usually involving a large tubercle. 

 A line of white spots from the lower posterior margin of the eye, 

 over the eye, and round the nape to the opposite eye ; a similar 

 lunate band of spots from ear to ear over the shoulder ; an enlarged 

 parotid-like gland on the side of the neck before the shoulder. 

 Tail with eight white bands ; the last in the specimen before me is 

 terminal ; but the tip of the tail appears to have been lost. Thirty 

 longitudinal lines of small scales in the middle of the belly. Under 

 surface dirty yellow, sparsely marbled with brown. Feet white- 

 spotted. 



Length of body 2" 4'", tail 2" 5'". 



Hab. Java. 



Hemidactylus maculatus, D. & B. ; Gthr. /. c. pp. 107, 108. 



Two specimens, male and female, from Burrabhoom have only ten 

 and nine upper labials, the lower labials in each being eight. The 

 femoral and prseanal pores are interrupted in the middle by the 

 breadth of four lines of abdominal scales. Thirty-eight longitudinal 

 series of abdominal scales. 



I have a specimen of this Lizard with a three-forked renewed tail, 

 resembling a fifth limb. 



Phelsuma andamanense, Gthr. I. c. p. 112. 



I have dissected Blyth's type of this species, and find it to be a 

 female. There is another bottle in this museum, without a locality 

 or name, containing males and females of a Gecko, the latter of which 

 agrees with this species in every particular ; and as the males only 

 differ from the females in having femoral pores, it appears that the 

 males and females are of one species with P. andamanense, and that 

 this species has femoral pores like its near allies. These structures 

 in the unnamed specimens extend along nearly the whole thigh ; 

 and the series is directed forwards to the mesial line, where it is 

 continuous with the one of the other side ; they vary in number 

 from twenty-nine to thirty-two. The chin-plates selected by Blyth 

 as a specific character seem to vary ; for the specimen which has 

 given rise to these remarks, and which was only lately received 

 from the Andamans, and is also a female, has these shields differ- 

 ently arranged from the type, with which, however, it is identical 

 in every other respect. It is curious to observe that the variation 

 that occurs in this specimen is in the direction of the arrangement 

 that prevails in the nearly allied Mauritian form, in which a pair of 

 shields lying side by side are in contact with the chin one, which 

 has three or four larger ones on either side of it. In Blyth's 

 specimen, a single shield lies behind the chin-shield, with three or 

 four shields of nearly equal size on either side of it. Three of the 

 specimens without locality show a similar variation to the one 

 just described ; one is intermediate ; and only two show the single 



