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A fold of skin along the side, indicating where the abdominal scales 

 terminate and the granules begin. Ten large prseanal scales, and 

 sixteen femoral pores on each side along the whole length of the 

 thigh. Rostral notched behind and grooved, with a small hexagonal 

 shield occupying the notch with the nasals in contact with it ; 

 nostril formed by the rostral anteriorly, first labial inferiorly, two 

 small tuberculoid shields posteriorly, and the nasal superiorly. Ten to 

 eleven upper labials, and eleven lower labials. Mental partially 

 wedged in between the two large chin-shields, which form a broad 

 suture with each other. Two rows of enlarged shields below the lower 

 labials. Limbs and toes slender ; the basal joints are not very distinct 

 from the terminal ones, which are strongly compressed, and are pro- 

 vided with transverse imbricate plates below and a series of much 

 smaller ones on the compressed phalanges. 



Blyth describes the colour as " grey, beautifully spotted and 

 marbled with black, set off with subdued white ; and the lower parts 

 whitish, freckled on the tail with black and gradually more so to the 

 extremity, the terminal third being almost wholly blackish ; above, 

 the tail is irregularly banded. A broad dark streak bordered with 

 whitish behind each eye, and continued irregularly round the occiput. 

 On the back the markings appear as irregular bands, paler internally 

 and blackish on their zigzag borders, most difficult to describe in- 

 telligibly ; the head above is spotted and not banded." 



Length G" 8'" ; tail 3" 6'". 



Ilab. Moulmein. 



The walls of the nostril, the character of the rostral above, with 

 its azygos shield impacted between the nasals, and the imbrication 

 of the plates on the basal phalange of the toes and fingers serve, as 

 with the other species, to connect this genus with Pentadactylus, from 

 which it is separated, however, by its non-retractile claws and the 

 absence of a claw-sheath. 



Gymnodactylus khasiensis. 



Pentadactylus (?) Miasiensis, Jerdon, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 18/0, 

 p. 75. 



Habit similar to that of G. variegatus, Blyth. Body finely gra- 

 nular, thickly covered with small trihedral tubercles ; upper surface 

 of the head wholly granular. Tubercles on the base of the tail and 

 numerous on the hind extremities, absent on the fore limbs. Tail 

 cylindrical, considerably longer than the body, with round flat almost 

 scaly tubercles of uniform size arranged in verticils, larger and irre- 

 gular on the under surface. No enlarged tubercles on the upper sur- 

 face of the tail, except those at the base ; no large subcaudals. Two 

 large supranasal shields behind the rostral, transversely elongated, 

 forming a suture in the middle and the upper margin of the nostril ; 

 anterior and lower margins of nostril formed by the rostral ; first labial 

 below the nostril. Ten or eleven upper, and nine lower labials. Five 

 large, rather elongated pentagonal shields behind the mental, with a 

 few enlarged shields behind them below the labials. Tongue elongate, 

 notched in front. Scales on the under surface small, rounded, and 



