1871.] DR. J. ANDERSON ON INDIAN REPTILES. 103 



imbricate ; thirty-seven longitudinal series on the middle of the 

 belly. Prseanal pores in angular series, eleven or thirteen in number, 

 continuous, part extending on to the thighs. 



Brown, with a series of moderate-sized arrow-shaped brown spots 

 along each side of the vertebral line, with the point directed back- 

 wards, sometimes connected together, with a series of more obscure 

 brown spots below them on the sides ; the vertebral spots are con- 

 fluent on the tail, forming about eleven brown rings, which encircle it, 

 with yellowish-brown interspaces between them ; the tip black ; the 

 nape and occiput reticulated with brown ; under surface dirty yellow. 



Dr. Jerdon was inclined to regard this as a form of Pentadactylus ; 

 but its strong non-retractile claws at once separate it from that 

 genus. It is in every respect a true Gymnodactylus. 



Hab. Khasi Hills. 



EUBLEPHARIS MACULARIUS. 



Cyrtodactylus macularius, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxiii. 

 pp. 737, 738. 



Eublepha7'is macularius (Blyth) ; Theobald, Cat. Rept. As. Soc. 

 Museum, p. 32. 



Habit similar to that of E. hardwickii. Sides and back with oval 

 conical tubercles, widely separated from each other by densely packed 

 minute granules ; the tubercles on the head, as far forward as the an- 

 terior angle of the eye, are separated from each other by the granules. 

 Under surface covered by more elongated imbricate scales than in E. 

 hardwickii. Twenty-seven longitudinal series on the middle of the 

 abdomen. Eleven upper and lower labials. Nostril in a single 

 shield above the first labial, with a moderate-sized supranasal 

 rostral. A pair of the large chin-shields behind the mental, with 

 four smaller ones in transverse series behind it. Fingers longer and 

 more slender than in E. hardwickii. Tail short, verticillated and 

 conical, almost granular above, with eight large tubercles in trans- 

 verse series on the posterior margin of each verticil ; under surface 

 with numerous divided and subdivided irregular moderate-sized 

 subcaudals. 



Colour in spirit uniform whitish, without any trace of bands. 

 Blyth describes the coloration of this species in terms that would 

 almost apply to E. hardwickii, with this difference, however, that 

 he mentions a third black band where the hind limbs are articulated, 

 and that the " rosy carneous interspaces " have a few black tubercles 

 interspersed among the numerous pale tubercles. In a half-grown 

 specimen he describes the interior of the black bands as pale and 

 speckled with black, the margins continuing black. In his type 

 specimen he mentions the dark line as almost having left the crown, 

 "its blackish margins only remaining as a streak from the nostril 

 through the eye, and continued round to join its opposite upon the 

 occiput ;" crown and cheeks mottled with dark spots more or less 

 confluent ; and the interspace from the occiput to the uape has many 

 black tubercles. Blyth gives the length of this specimen from the 

 snout to the vent as 3g inches, and regards the specimen, as a young 



