Vol. I, No. 3.] Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. 81 
LN. 8.] 
ContripuTions To Ortentan Herperonocy II.—Notes on 
the Oriental Lizards in the Indian Museum, with a List of the 
Seg recorded from British India and Ceylon. Part 1.—By NELSON 
ANNANDALE, B.A., Deputy Superintendents of the Indian Museum, 
(With 2 plates =) 
be found in Mr. Boulenger’s works. Of a fe ew, however, this is not 
the case; for there are still parts of India—the country between 
northern “Assam: and southern Tenasserim is one of them—of whic 
and from which the Museum eben bso not examined 
— until within the last few 
the light chiefly of Mr. Bonlenger"é s volume in the “ Fauna 
of India” and subsequent papers, it is no longer possible to main- 
tain many of the older Indian naturalists’ identifications, whether 
published or in manuscript, and he has recently pointed out that the 
names of two of the commonest of our Indian lizards cannot stand 
—that Honadasiylas cocte?, D. & B., the common house-lizard of 
Calcutta, m as i, vonsioeesia Riipp, while 
— Mu ch is even more ant i in some parts 
notably the specimens on which the form Gymnodactylus consob- 
rinoides is founded. 
GECKONID. 
ALSOPHYLAX PIPIENS ( Pall.) 
Gymnodactylus microtis, Blanford, J.A.S.B. XLIV ©), 1875, p. 
93; and ark. Miss., Rept., p. 15, pl. a fe : 
Alsophylax ret) Pralengen Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus 
Dr. Blanford does not record this species from tadak, though 
it appears to be common in Eastern Turkestan; but there is a 
1 Its locality is given as Queensland. 
