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



Kelaart (Prod. Faunse Ceyl., 1852, p. 158) also gives H. Sykesi, Gray, as 

 the synonym of his doubtful maculatus. The history of the species appears 

 to have been overlooked by Dr. GKinther. 



H. maculatus, as restricted, occurs in Ceylon, throughout India, Burma 

 and the Malayan Peninsula extending to Sumatra, Java, &c. Peters in 

 Yan der Decken's Reisen gives it also from the Seychelles. It is a very com- 

 mon species in houses about Calcutta. 



H. JPieresi is as yet known only from Ceylon and from the Dakhin 

 (Dekan). 



4. H. gracilis. — A very beautiful species described by "W. T. Blanford 

 from Berar and Raipur in Central India (Journ. A. S. B., Vol. xxxix 

 p. 362, pi. xvi, figs. 4-6). 



5. H. eetictjlattjs, Beddome. Madras J. Med. Sc, 1870, p. 33. 



6. H. feejtattjs, Schlegel, (I. B., p. 168). 



Hem. sublcBvis, Gray, apud Theobald, Oat. Kept. Asiat. Soc, p. 30. 



H. frenatus, in. Journ. A. S. Beng., vol. xxxix, p. 164. 



? H. punctatus. Jerdon, 1853, Journ. A. S. B., xxii, p. 467. 



This species which usually grows to about 5 inches, (rarely attaining 

 5-§-) is readily recognised from all other Indian Semidactyli by the small 

 size of the thumb and inner toe ; the claw on it is setiform and "often so 

 fine as to be hardly traceable. The body is finely granular, but there are 

 always some enlarged rounded tubercles present. In Bengal specimens, two 

 alternate series of those very usually run along the centre of the back, and 

 there are besides about 3 irregular rows on each side of the body. Dakhin 

 (Dekan) and Upper India specimens generally have no enlarged tubercles in 

 the middle of the back. The tail is spiny, unless it has been reproduced, in 

 which case it remains smooth. The femoral pores are either interrupted by 

 one enlarged scale, or they are continuous above the preanal region. The 

 colour is very variable, — uniform grey, or greenish grey, very closely marbled 

 and spotted with dark ; or grey with some irregular stripes and close mar- 

 blings, the former most distinctly marked on the neck and the sides of the 

 belly ; or dark brown with some irregular blackish stripes ; there is, however, 

 always a more or less distinct pale (during life sometimes yellowish orange) 

 band present, passing from the rostral through the eye and either disappear- 

 ing above the ear, or continuing along the side of the body down to the 

 groin ; this pale band is margined above and below by a dark line. The tail 

 has sometimes an orange tinge, particularly after the cuticle had been shed. 



S. frenatus is the commonest Gecko from Ceylon and through India, ex- 

 tending in a northwesterly direction as far as the Panjab, and occurring all 

 through Bengal, Burma and the whole of the Malayan Archipelago, includ- 



