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8. ConrrisuTions To OrientaL Herperonocy Il.—Notes on 
the Oriental Lizards in the Indian Museum, with a List of the 
Species recorded from British India and Ceylon. Part 1—By NELSON 
Annanpatp, B.A., Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Musewm. 
(With 2 plates.) 
The collection of lizards in the Indian Museum is mainly Indian 
and Burmese, including examples of the great majority of the in- 
digenous species ; but interesting material from neighbouring coun- 
tries, specially Persia, Hastern Turkestan, Yunnan, Siam and 
Malaya, is also included. Of forms from more distant regions only 
a comparatively small number are represented, one of the most note- 
worthy being the rare and peculiar Australian Ball-tailed Gecko, 
Nephrurus asper,! of which a good specimen was obtained in exchange 
with the Queensland Museum some years ago, under a wrong 
identification. The Skinks and Lacertide of Palestine, however, 
are well represented by the collection of the late Dr. J. Anderson, 
Regarding the majority of our Oriental specimens, an exami- 
nation adds little to the systematic and geographical knowledge to 
be found in Mr. Boulenger’s works. Of a few, 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 which 
eyen the systematist has not yet exhausted the vertebrate zoology, 
and from which the Museum possesses specimens not examined 
critically until within the last few months. 
In the light chiefly of Mr. Boulenger’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 Hemidactylus coctei, D. & B., the common house-lizard of 
Calcutta, must be known as Hf. flaviviridis, Ripp, while H. 
gleadovit, Murray (which is even more abundant in some parts 
of India) is identical with H. brookii, Gray. I must express my 
personal obligations to Mr. Boulenger for examining certain 
Geckos about the correct identifications of which I was doubtful, 
notably the specimens on which the form Gymmodactylus consob- 
vinoides is founded. 
GECKONIDA. 
ATLSOPHYLAX PIPIENS ( Pall.) 
Gymnodactylus microtis, Blanford, J.A.S.B. XLIV (2), 1875, p. 
193; and 2nd. Yark. Miss., Rept., p. 15, pl. ui, fig. 1. 
Alsophylax pipiens, Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus. i, p. 19. 
Dr. Blanford does not record this species from Ladak, though 
it appears to be common in Hastern Turkestan; but there is a 
! Its locality is given as Queensland. 
