92 F. Stoliczka — On Indian Lizards. [No. 1, 



3rd. — The fore limb, when laid forward, at least reaches the nasal shield 

 and more often the tip of the snout ;* and the hind limb extends rarely only 

 to the collar, usually somewhat beyond it, and occasionally as far as the 

 tympanum. 



None of these points indicate, I believe, a specific distinction from typi- 

 cal A. Cantoris, as described by Giinther. Some of my specimens agree in 

 every point of size with the measurements given by Gunther ; the largest 

 is 9 inches. 



Of other variations may be noted : — the anterior frontal is, as a rule, 

 single, sometimes split into two unequal portions, and in one instance it is 

 represented by a regular pair of equal shields. The posterior frontals gene- 

 rally form a suture, but sometimes they are partially or even entirely 

 separated by an intercalated shorter, or longer, or by two, shields. The 

 posterior supraciliaries are often broken up into two shields. The form and 

 number of vertical and occipitals is persistent. The large shield below the orbit 

 somethnes rests on two or on three labials, and occasionally it touches the 

 labial margin itself. 



Mm.- GHOKOTIBM. 

 Gecko guttatus (I. R. p. 102). 



The 3 r oung of this, and indeed of most other speciesf of Geckoes, are 

 dark, or blackish brown, with white spots. Few small spots are on the hinder 

 part of the head, while on the body they are larger and generally arranged 

 in 7 irregular cross series, the first series being placed immediately behind the 

 occiput arid the last between the hind limbs ; tail blackish with 7 white 

 rings, the last occupying the tip. 



The general structure is exactly as in the old, but the tubercles are 

 much flatter ; there are (in several specimens) only 84 longitudinal series 

 in the middle of the belly, while in old ones the number rises to 50. 



b Pttchozoon homalocephaltjm. 



I. R., p. 105 and Journal A. S. B., xxxix, p. 159. 

 This species occurs both at the Nicobar and Andaman islands. 



* Giinther says it only reaches ' the front edge of the orbit,' hut he gives the 

 fore limb 11 lines, which is exactly the distance between the axil and the nasal shield 

 in all iny specimens measuring 7 inches. 



f It is, therefore, very probable that the specimen of Geclw Brnithii, Gray, which 

 I noticed on p. 161 of Jour. A. S. B,, 1870, Yol. xxxix, has still the coloration of the 

 young, and may lose most of the white spots, when adult. Dr, Anderson when 

 re-describing the same in Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1871, p. 159, subsequent to the 

 publication of my paper, omitted to notice the identity of the specimen, which it is 

 necessary to do, because a misprint occurred in my statement (1. cit. on p. 162) as re- 

 gards the total measurement, this being 4'8 inches (instead of 5'8 inches), but the 

 other detailed measurements are correct. 



