1872.] Sloliczka, on Kaclilt Bq)t'iles. 70 



third longer than th.e third. The claws are moderate, but much stronger on 

 the fingers than on the toes, and all are blackish above, 



This is a true ground lizard, sluggish in its habits. It often sits quietly 

 on a stone, the head turned to one side and does not move unless forcibly 

 pushed from its place ; and even then it shews very little activity. 



There is no doubt that the. genus Brachysaura is most closely allied to 

 Trapelus, agreeing with this in the general form of body and coloration, 

 but differing from it by the occipital spines. In this respect it agrees with 

 Agama, but has a stouter body and shorter tail, no longitudinal fold on 

 the throat, and the edge of tympanum without any spines. However, it is 

 difficult to say which species should be regarded as the type of Agama, and 

 all the genera of the ground-Agamidce require a thorough revision. It only 

 differs from Calotes by the stout, rather depressed, body, short tail, and l)y 

 its terrestrial habits. 



GECKOTIDJE. 



13. Hemidactyltjs Coctjei. (Comp. J. A. S. B., xli, 1S72, p. 198). 

 Tolerably common, both in houses and among crevices of rocks, through- 

 out Kachh and the adjoining Run island. 



14. H. MACULATiis, (ibidem, p. 94). 



Very common ; colour ashy, or light brown, with darker spots. 



15. H. Leschenaultii, (ibidem, p. 97). 



I only obtained two specimens of this species in the Wagur district, and 

 saw no others ; it must be very rare. 



16. Gymnodacttlus Kachhensis, n. sp. 



Head rather high, with the snout moderately produced and obtusely 

 rounded ; rostral longer than high, groved above ; nostrils lateral, directed 

 upwards, immediately behind the rostral, and followed by three small shields ; 

 snout above covered with largish, subcarinated shields ; top and sides of head 

 with small granular scales between which larger rounded ones are intermixed ; 

 body covered with 12-14 longitudinal rows of enlarged, trihedral, very sharp- 

 ly keeled tubercles, separated by two or three rows of small granular scales 

 from each other, and each large tubercle is only little smaller than the open- 

 ing of the ear. Tail rather depressed, verticillate, with six rows of large 

 sharply keeled tubercles (none along the centre) ; limbs above also with 

 large tubercles ; 11-12 upper labials, the last two or three very small -, eight 

 or nine lower labials ; inferior rostral large, posteriorly pointed ; two pairs of 

 enlarged chin-shields, followed by a row of conspicuously enlarged shields 

 along the labials ; scales on throat rounded, yqyj small ; those of the belly 

 larger, in 28-30 longitudinal series and separated on either side from tlie 

 upper tubercular region by about six rows of much smaller shields ; 4-8 

 preanal pores in a curved, unintciruj)led, series in the male, (no femoral pores 



